Just War

"No 'healing', no apologies, no memorials, nothing can possibly compensate for the damage done and the pain inflicted....The only thing we can possibly do, twenty years too late, is to try and tell the truth." --Historian Eric Bergerud (UC Berkeley) One of the age old questions facing mankind is: when is war just? Or is their any such thing as a just war? There are a few fundamental principles surrounding the concept of just …

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