Well, gee, Doc, thanks... I’m sure my Airborne old man would be THRILLED to know that fighting the Nazis - and his brothers and cousins fighting the Japs in the Pacific - passed the test for a “just war”.
ANY time you’re fighting a totalitarian, oppressive government, it’s “just”.
Every Cold Warrior who stood up to the Soviet Union and their communist proxies fought a “just” war too.
I suspect he was making the statement, a correct statement to counter what Obama said in Hiroshima and what the Pope’s spokesman said in Rome last week
If WWII started today we would probably be aligned with the Axis powers . . . it could never happen in the 1940’s but the 2010’s are a different era altogether.
I don’t see any Winston Churchills or Dwight D. Eisenhower’s in this generation.