{"id":8664,"date":"2002-09-06T18:39:35","date_gmt":"2002-09-06T23:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/09\/06\/the-just-because-war-theory\/"},"modified":"2002-09-06T18:39:35","modified_gmt":"2002-09-06T23:39:35","slug":"the-just-because-war-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/09\/the-just-because-war-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"The Just Because War Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Confused by the debate going on<br \/>\nover at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exceptionalmarriages.com\/weblog\/\">HMS Blog<\/a> on<br \/>\nthe principles of the Just War Theory and whether attacking Iraq falls under<br \/>\nthose principles? Do you just want to bomb Iraq but can&#8217;t seem to cut through<br \/>\nthe confusion and morally justify it? A lesser know paragraph in the Summa<br \/>\nTheologica of St. Thomas Aquinas describes the Just Because War<br \/>\nTheory.<\/p>\n<p><b>Objection 1<\/b>. We don&#8217;t know if a new regime will in fact be<br \/>\nbetter than the current one in Iraq and could very possibly be<br \/>\nworse.<\/p>\n<p><b>Objection 2<\/b>. We have no support from Arab countries in the<br \/>\nregion and a war could further disrupt this already unstable<br \/>\nregion.<\/p>\n<p><b>Objection 3<\/b>. With no Arab support we don&#8217;t have a place to<br \/>\nstage troops for the three to four months it will take to stage<br \/>\nthem.<\/p>\n<p><b>Objection 4<\/b>. Iraq&#8217;s funding of terrorism is probably no<br \/>\nworse than money funneled by Saudi Arabia and Iran and also China&#8217;s support<br \/>\nthese nations through the sale of military hardware.<\/p>\n<p><b>On the<br \/>\ncontrary<\/b>: Just because.<\/p>\n<p>bigger military and just because Iraq rhymes with attack.<\/p>\n<p>But seriously folks, I think Iraq has had its hands in previous terror attack<br \/>\non US citizens and that we probably don&#8217;t know the full extent of it. But<br \/>\nwhether the true threat that Iraq shows justifies a war is something that I am<br \/>\nnot qualified to answer. As a retired Navy Chief I was involved in the Persian<br \/>\nGulf before, the one day bombing raid on Libya, and the show of force by Haiti<br \/>\nso I have seen military force effectively used and totally misused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confused by the debate going on over at HMS Blog on the principles of the Just War Theory and whether attacking Iraq falls under those principles? Do you just want&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}