We trace our entire concept of Just War to St Thomas Aquinas, http://ethics.sandiego.edu/Books/Texts/Aquinas/JustWar.html
Hardly an enemy.
We are not barbarians. We are not uncivilized, immoral muslims. They act with deliberate, anti-Christian evil. We do not. . .and Christianity wrote the rules, not the enemy.
“We are not uncivilized, immoral muslims. “
Did you ever consider the Civil War, whereby we were not so kind to POWs? How about carpet bombing entire cities or using nuclear weapons on cities in WWII? We killed millions of non-combatants in WWII. Try that today and the lawyers would call it a war crime.
I’ll say it again: War is Hell and it needs to be to help prevent wars by making them so undesirable by everyone.
Since we have made war a kinder-gentler civil procedure we seem to be having “wars” all over the place and for years and years. The US has become one of the world’s policemen. 1984: “We have always been at war with Eurasia.”
“We are not barbarians. We are not uncivilized, immoral muslims. They act with deliberate, anti-Christian evil. We do not. . .and Christianity wrote the rules, not the enemy.”
Cherokee Trail of Tears.
Thousands of Cherokee Indians died in 1838 when the US government force marched 16,543 Indians hundreds of miles, and that death march resulted in about 4,000 deaths.
Don’t say we the US doesn’t do those things, we have, and with the Indians we even had a treaty we violated.
“We are not barbarians. We are not uncivilized, immoral muslims. “
P.S. SIOP 1. I think you might know what that means.