Chomsky:

There is another crazy article in the NY Times at:
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/22/arts/22JUST.html>

The article talks *around* the issues that are all directly connected to
the question "America, what would be the appropriate, just and effective
response to the hijacked airliners and subsequent loss of life during the
destruction of the TWC.

Various theorists of a "just war" a discussed.

1) There is no such thing as a "just war."

==> War is about eliminating your opposition by any means necessary.


F. Leon

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Thinkers Face the Limits of a Just War
By Celestine Bohlen

"American aircraft carriers head for the Persian Gulf, and the president
steps up his threats against terrorists. It is in times like these, when
anger, pain and outraged patriotism are tossed together with talk of war,
that moral philosophers, theologians and others who study the ethics of
modern warfare begin to worry."

The balance of the article is located at:
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/22/arts/22JUST.html>