A just war can only be waged as a last resort. All non violent options must be exhausted before the use of force can be justified.
We have not used all possible remedies to end the war on terrorism. For instance, we have not yet found Bin Laden and tried him for his actions. This would be a safer and more peaceful way to go about ending this war. Also we should give diplomacy more time. I feel that there are many other ways to fight terrorism without resulting in war. (see attached articles).
The ultimate goal of a war is to re-establish peace. More specifically, the peace established after the war must be preferable to the peace that would have prevailed if the war had not been fought. .
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If we went to war with Iraq, then peace would not be re-established. They are still recovering from the pre-gulf war, and there is not much peace there to begin with. If the United States chooses to go to war, peace is the last thing we want them to have. If we wanted to re-establish peace, we would be going about handling the attacks in a different manner, such as the examples above.
The weapons used in war must discriminate between combatants and non-combatants. Civilians are never permissible targets of war, and every effort must be taken to avoid killing civilians. The deaths of civilians are justified only if they are unavoidable victims of a deliberate attack on a military target.
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The United States is thinking and discussing the use of nuclear weapons in the fight against terrorism. A nuclear bomb will not only kill the terrorists, but many civilians who had nothing to do with the fight in the first place. Killing civilians goes against the principles of a just war. Therefore, we should not attack Iraq with a nuclear weapon, and they should not threaten the United States with one either.
Or is their any such thing as a just war? There are a few fundamental principles surrounding the concept of just war. They are: a just war must be a last resort. ... A war is only just if waged by a legitimate authority. ... Those who argue for "just war" believe that the goal of a just war must be to bring about peace, a peace that it preferable to whatever situation would have existed in the absence of the war. ...
When asked about war some would allude to the Just War Theory. ... A great impetus to the Just War Theory was St. ... A just cause is required to wage war. ... So for them the just war conditions only apply to aggressive wars. ... Walzer, and most modern just war theorists, speak of the one just cause for resorting to war being the resistance of aggression. ...
"Just War - or a Just War?" ... Elie Wiesel (Wiesel) does not believe in war as well but thinks that if there is a just cause like in Iraq, action has to be taken. ... I don't believe there are many people that want our country to go to war, but just about everyone wants the problems to be solved with the least amount of destruction and fatality. ... I think that Carter is just ignorant because he is against war so bad that thinking like that might get in the way of making a crucial decision when being threatened at this magnitude. Although I do think that he i...
Thomas Aquinas believed that a war needed to be a just one for it to be morally good. ... In a just war, self-defense plays a big role. ... If there is self-defense in a war that already tells us that the war is unjust. ... Only if all possible means of peace have been breached, war is just. If there was a great effort put in negotiations and other means of peace creation, then a war is just. ...
What is War? ... The word means more than just a "military conflict between nations or parties," as the dictionary says. War is complex. ... The war began to mean more to me than just what I saw on TV, read in newspapers, and studied in social studies class. ... So why have war? ...
Was The Civil War A Just War Or Not In the United States of America the Civil War was one very controversial issues at the beginning of the United States weather it was a just war or not. Now, there is the major factor in the contribution to the Civil War slavery, was it just or was it unconstitutional. ... So is having freedom and equality not a just cause it was to the north. ... The Civil War had a just cause by having the right intentions by not wanting to split the US in half. ... Bombarding the south with shells would've incidently killed civilians, that h...
I am astonished the amount of research he was able to do just over one hundred years ago. ... After World War II, the Cold War shortly followed. ... Wars upon wars, slavery and women's rights to name a few. ... We didn't just sit around and wait for something more to happen. ... Regardless of the time period, to me, it just seems to be a cycle of ongoing wars. ...
Are they just power hungry? ... Both of these stories show death and destruction, just as the stories by Ron Kovic and Owen do. ... They are going to fight back and kill just as they are being killed. ... I have just mentioned a few selections where war is portrayed as something awful. There are thousands more just like it, whether they are published works or just personal journals. ...
The War of 1812 was a war fought between the United States and Great-Britain, at the time Canada was colonized by the British and was invaded by the Americans multiple times throughout the war. ... Even though the British colonized Canada at the time and fought against the Americans they abandoned their Aboriginal friends just as they had done many times before. ... The War of 1812 was a war that started due to many reasons, one of which was poor communication. ... If the Americans came out on top Canada may not be separate from the USA, it may just have been one large country. ... The America...
