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To: KC Burke
On nations acting in concert and with just war force.

Was it JUST to incinerate hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese mothers and babies in the Tokyo firestorm? Was it just to kill millions over a purely military attack in Hawaii?

545 posted on 01/19/2007 5:37:05 AM PST by Jim Noble
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To: Jim Noble
Hi Jim.

I believe you are inaccurate to claim that Allied Forces killed "millions" (I guess you are saying non-combatants) in our attacks seeking to have the Japanese surrender in WWII.

I also beleive that characterizing the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, a site with many civilians working in a peacetime naval harbor common to the civilian harbor was a purely military target. Civilians did die after all

No, when I use the term "just war" I am speaking of the Just War Doctrine, not war in general or the current war specifically.

I am saying that the fellow I was replying to was asking for a war outside of that doctrine. A war against all adherents of a general religous faith, beyond borders and cultures.

He is advocating that we make war on a religion, long after those who harmed us are gone or surrendered. He does something much like hate-crime legislation, he wants war on their thoughts and beliefs because he feels that so long as there are any beleivers in Islam, they will war upon us with terror.

I don't agree with that position, and I shared that view with him.

582 posted on 01/19/2007 7:50:06 AM PST by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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