Posted on 10/24/2012 10:11:32 AM PDT by arthurus
One of mankind’s first recorded discussions concerning morality in warfare is found in Thucydides’ passage in his master work, the Peloponnesian Wars (431-404 B.C.), wherein Athenian commanders, who possessed overwhelming force, approached their adversary before commencing the battle with a surrender ultimatum stating that they would hear no protestations about justice, rather the weaker adversary must consider the incontestable facts of the situation and surrender. In other words, ‘the strong do as they will, and the weak do as they must.’ Obviously these ancients dismissed the concept of restraint in war as irrelevant. To their way of thinking, after the war has been won, humans can then return to a moral political order that is structured on restraint and civility in daily affairs. In other words, these men understood intuitively that war against one’s enemy required a different code of conduct than was applicable within a political order made up of one’s fellow citizens. Within this context, war simply cannot fit into a moral framework of restraint. Such thinking might be termed the ‘Reality School.’
Directly opposed to the ‘Reality School’ is what we might designate the ‘Pacifism School.’
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At one time, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Iraq, etc. were all CHRISTIAN countries.
They were attacked by islamic armies and the populations were given the choice of being forced into islam, death or live as basically slaves.
At one time, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Iraq, etc. were all CHRISTIAN countries.
They were attacked and occupied by islamic armies and the populations were given the choice of being forced into islam, death or live as basically slaves.
And they support only smaller poulations. North Africa was a bredbasket for the Roman Empire. The Saracens converted it all to sheep pasture which converted it all to semi arid land unsuited for agriculture.
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