My colleague, the Rev. John Krenson of the Roman Catholic Church (bio), also a serving field-grade military police officer of the Tenn. Army National Guard, has some incisive thoughts about Just War theory and Israel's combat against Hezbollah.
My colleague, the Rev. John Krenson of the Roman Catholic Church (bio), also a serving field-grade military police officer of the Tenn. Army National Guard, has some incisive thoughts about Just War theory and Israel's combat against Hezbollah.
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If you want to know something about just war theory in general I would suggest the following monograph:
Richard Tuck, The Rights of War and Peace: Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant
I am not surprised to see US (pretend) christians advocating that the gospels support state terror. The US did not invent the idea of holy state terror (we in the christian mideast bear much of the responsibility, I'm afraid, looking back through history), but it seems obvious that much of the US population has the ignorance, hatred, and arrogance to enjoy the religious justification of state sponsored terror.