Hi Ray,
On and off for a while I have been looking into what constitutes a good war. Recently I heard that we do not have enough troops in Afghanistan because of our diversion war in Iraq. The war in Iraq is tenable only if it helps the war in Afghanistan but in not way does Iraq fit the definition of a just war.
Being in Venezuela Russia now has a bargaining chip to get the United States out of Georgia. Today is a good day to be an enemy of the United States because of George Bush we cannot respond and things are only going to get worse.
Have you ever considered what defines a just war?"
For over a thousand years that has been a Christian definition of what constitutes a just war. This just-war developed in the fourth century. The requirements for a just war have varied to some extent but there are shared principles.
First, there has to be an initial act of aggression, in response to which a just war may be waged.
Second, diplomatic solutions must be exhausted.
Traditional just-war criteria also demand that the initiation of war be undertaken by the proper authority. Under the U. S. Constitution, the proper authority is neither the president nor the United Nations. It is Congress.
In Iraq there was no act of aggression against the United States. We are 6,000 miles from Iraq. Stories about unmanned drones coming to get us were not especially plausible.
Diplomatic solutions had not been exhausted; they had hardly been tried.
Congress unconstitutionally delegated its decision-making power over the war to the President. By accepting Congress' unconstitutional act the President himself acted unconstitutionally, i.e. illegally.
Those who advocated war with Iraq claimed Saddam had committed an act of aggression against the United States: he had shot at our airplanes. Those American planes were monitoring "no-fly zones" over Iraq. Authority for such zones was said to come from U. N. Resolution 688, which instructs nations to contribute to humanitarian relief in the Kurdish and Shiite areas. The resolution says nothing about no-fly zones, and nothing about bombing missions over Iraq.
Saddam Hussein missed every single airplane for 12 years, as tens of thousands of flights were flown indicates just how little threat Iraq was to the United States. Iraq for all practical purposes had no functioning air force, antiaircraft weapons, or navy. This was supposed to be the great threat, requiring urgent action. Such nonsense insults the intelligence of the American people and makes the rest of the world wonder about our sanity.
Regards,
John Jenkins
John Jenkins
865-803-8179 cell
Gatlinburg, TN
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com
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