From the archive, the desirability of good wars, the relevance of the just war tradition, and a defense of the Iraq War.
PRESENTS
SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT
Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.
H. W. Longfellow
Can soldiers be saints? From the archive, three authors reflect on the ecumenical tradition of meritorious warmaking, the licitness of limited strikes and air power, and the Iraq War.
Despite the dominant view of war as something inherently ignoble and incompatible with Christian living, most Christians still approve of wars from time to time, deeming them “necessary evils.”
When any tradition or system is forced to adapt to emerging circumstances, we must be clear about the essentials. At the heart of just war is nothing other than the establishment of justice.
There were multiple and mutually reinforcing rationales for making the moral judgment that the removal of Saddam Hussein and his regime satisfied a developed version of the war-decision criterion of “just cause.”
