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Just War and the Gulf War
by James Turner Johnson, George Weigel
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Ethics and Public Policy Center (1991-12-11)
ISBN: 0896331660
EAN: 9780896331662
Dewy Decimal #: 956.7043
Hardcover: 144 pages
SKU: 0086723
Condition: Good
Comments: Clean and tight ex-library book.Stamps on edge of page deck/inside covers/ffep; card pocket inside covers/feps; Dust Jacket has minor shelfwear; shelf label on DJ spine. Excellent condition but for library markings.
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Product Description
Prior to military action in the Gulf War, the United States went through a remarkable national self-examination, a six-month-long debate over the ethics and politics of any possible U.S. response to Iraqi aggression in Kuwait. Politicians and op-ed columnists, talk-show hosts and their audiences, military officers and congressmen all entered the debate in terms frequently drawn from the venerable "just war" tradition-a calculus of moral reasoning whose roots go back to St. Augustine. Was ours a "just cause"? Who was the "competent authority" to authorize the use of armed force? How could we protect "non-combatant immunity"? Was Desert Storm a "last resort"? America's foremost historian of the just war tradition, James Turner Johnson, analyzes the decision to confront Iraq militarily and the actual conduct of the campaign according to the classic just war criteria. George Weigel surveys the involvement of America's religious leaders in the debate and their faithfulness to the classic just war principles.
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