A just war against Assad? By guest author Dr. Mike Corgan
Almost daily, we learn of massacres, indiscriminate shelling, and rocket attacks against civilian areas in and around Homs. The situation in Syria seems to offer the occasion for a just war against Bashir Assad and his army if ever there were one.
Most members of the United Nations and the Arab League, as well as many others, support some kind of action. But does this near-universal consensus add up to a just war occasion? In international law it well might. But just war theory usually requires a just peace--a condition only implicit, at most, in international law ... Read more... |
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