Just_War

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 war. They are: a just war must be a last resort. This means that all other peaceful options must be exhausted before the use of force can be justified. A war is only just if waged by a legitimate authority. A just war must be fought only as self-defense against armed attack or to redress a wrong. There must be a reasonable chance of success. This means deaths and injury that result from a hopeless cause cannot be morally justified. The consequences of the war must be better than the situation that would exist had the war not taken place. The violence and destruction must be proportional to the injuries suffered. And last, civilians must not be targets of the fighting and great care must be war, iraq, vietnam, must, kuwait, just, united, conflict, weapons, about, states, saudi, peace, involvement, gulf, arabia, american, troops, through, team, desert, been, world, two, throughout, soviet, second, result, resolution, prior, president, others, opposition, north, never