Just War

Theodore Roosevelt once said that the U.S was to “walk quietly and carry a big stick”. Today there is no walking quietly about it. The United States is still caring that big stick but we are lumbering over the other countries like Paul Bunion. President Bush has gotten his congressional mandate to launch a war on Iraq. America will, for the first time in its modern history, attack someone who has not attacked our …

…Command, was quoted as saying in the Oct. 11 Chicago Tribune, "I believe he [Saddam Hussein] is ... containable at this moment. War and violence are a very last resort." Clearly the general has studied his Just War theory. St. Augustine wanted to know if Christians could resist barbarians. If the United States strikes first against Iraq, then it is Americans who have become the barbarians. We have learned nothing in more than 1,500 years of moral reasoning.