Is there really such thing as a just war?
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Well, it would depend on what you define "just" as.  This is the point of using just war doctrine.  If it meets your definition of just, then you say it is just.  I do think there are cases when war is "just."  When it is the last resort to stop genocide for example.  When going to war is the lesser of two evils, it is just.
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Perhaps they realize that this is an unjust war.
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Yes. But it is less a war of cultural diversity and more a war between right and wrong. The real culture war is between those who know God and follow His leading in their lives and those who don't know God and follow their own ideas about right and wrong.
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Was there ever no civil war there?
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When you boil it down aren't all wars an inability of one or both sides to see the other's point of view?  All wars are fought over ideas.  I think that wars will always been fought, there will always be people who will not abide by what is right.
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YES! Why should people have to fight a war that they don't believe in, when really there doesn't need to be a war at all?
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In a just world, yes.  But you'd have a larger question if you considered our world just.\n\nGood question~~
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REALLY, I DON'T KNOW BUT I DON'T BELIEVE IT SHOULD HAVE GONE SO FAR AS WAR.  WE NEED PEACE.............
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Sic vis pacem parabellum\n"If you desire peace, prepare for war."\n\nWithout war, there can be no peace. It sounds like a paradox, I know, but it's true. True peace is won through war, and can only be truly appreciated after it has been fought, bled, and died for. However high the cost of war may be, sometimes the cost of not going to war can be higher. Being a pacifist will assuredly make you a victim. We can't just forgive and forget every transgression commited against us and expect to be respected or taken seriously. Would you respect someone who allows others to take advantage of their good nature at will? I want peace (believe it or not), but not at the expense of our national sovereignty and dignity. Simply appeasing the demands of dictators and terrorists to avoid war isn't peace, that is scarcely better than slavery. As cynical as it sounds, you have to kick some a*s every now and then to be respected. Such is the nature of the world and human nature in general. If you want to believe in the peace at any price fantasy, that's up to you. But I would rather die a free man with a gun in my hands than live for a hundred years by our enemy's permission. \n\nThe only earth the meek will inherit is the 6x4 plot they are buried in.\n\nREMEMBER 9/11\nNEVER FORGIVE! NEVER FORGET!\nPEACE THROUGH VICTORY!
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there is a passage in the bible of the ten commandments that says that you cannot kill anyone, but there is also something in christianity and other religions that are trying to classify this sorta thing as a "Just War", which means that it's acceptable based upon justifiable cause. it's like in Islam they have what is known as Jihad (which has a few different meanings) but is commonly known as a "holy war" and is allowed because it's a 'just war'. they feel that it is the right thing to do because of the severity.
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War should be considered as the ultimate failure of a civilised society.\n\nWhen violence is the only answer, we are obviously don't have the intelligence to find the right questions.
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The “just war” doctrine requires rigorous consideration to determine if defense by military force is legitimate. Offensive war is never justified. \n\nAll the following considerations must be true to justify war:\n1. The damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain;\n2. All other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective;\n3. There must be serious prospects of success;\n4. The use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated. \n\nIt has been argued the pre-war Iraq:\n1. Was not inflicting lasting, grave and certain damage to the United States;\n2. Could have been influenced by diplomatic and international sanctions.\n\nIt is argued now that:\n3. There is not a serious prospect of success;\n4. The use of arms has produced evils and disorders greater than the evil eliminated.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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No war is not a good thing, and anyone who thinks so should enlist instead of watching for updates on 'their side' on CNN.\n\nThere is never a good enough reason to kill innocents and you can't avoid killing innocent people in a war, no matter how hard you try.\n\nI truly hope, and my hope may be foolish that we'll one day see a time without war, without the world having to come to an end.
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In no way war is life.We should take all the available step to avoid any sort of war.b'cozwar is cause of immense destruction.But when war becomes inevitable then we should not  take a back seat and come up to protect our right.
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Friend - Liberal here, and pacifist.  Though much of war is ugly and sad, yes, good does come of wars.  There are the thousand little good things that happen every day...friendships made, some one lost is found, a child smiles...and the greater good, such as the end of the reign of Hitler...and yes, even of Saddam.  I am also a pragmatic liberal pacifist who realizes there will be wars as long as man lives on earth to wage them, just as there always has been.  Whether the good outweighs the bad, I cannot say.  Ask me when my son is safely home from Iraq for the last time...and do not be so quick to predict what a liberal will say.  Grace and Peace
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I haven't usually heard it called that, at least not in the United States, France, or Britain.  I think it might have been called the "Great Patriotic War" in Russia, though -- but they like big names.\n\nWW2 was not fought primarily for patriotic reasons, at least not by the United States, though patriotism might have been used to motivate the soldiers.  I think in many cases WW2 was called the "Good War" because the other side was so monstrously evil that there is no moral question.
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war is not new.. and neither is the nazi idea of war.  the thirst for power will certainly always remain in the human mindset, and we will always have a need to keep that in check.