I heard the President’s address while driving to the bookstore to pick up the Fowler book on enterprise architecture patterns.
It is so sad that it had to come to war.
Spare a prayer for the men and women who have gone to Iraq, and spare a prayer for the Iraqi innocents who, through no fault of their own, have been caught up in this sorry affair.
Is it a just war? It is a just cause, and a just authority which makes the claim for redress by force. (Elshtain, Novak, Niehaus, Pope John Paul II, Carter) The only questions that remain are: was it a last resort? (after 12 years of dodgy non-compliance, I think it is, contra JPII and Carter) will it cause more harm than good? (For the Iraqi people, it will most definitely not, unless we of America foresake all sense; for America and its standing in the world community, perhaps it will.) The selective attacks so far seem to argue for jus in bello, but war has never been a certain thing.
Who now remembers France’s occupation of the Ruhr? Not that posterity has anything to do with morality, but we are talking about standing, with which it does. But these things will pass.
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