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Where to start with Iraq: We need to find our grounding
Which brings us to today. After more than a decade of U.S.-led war, after thousands of deaths and billions spent on the Iraqi government and military, Iraq is now tearing itself apart via a Sunni versus Shiite sectarian war. There is slim reason to believe that the various Iraqi factions have ever b...
Just War Tradition, <i>Ahkem al-jihad</i>, and Political Decision-Making
Delivered at the Omani Training Institute for Diplomats Muscat, Oman
The Islam/West Debate : Documents from a Global Debate on Terrorism, U.S. Policy, and the Middle East
A Minority of a Minority of a Minority
The people who have declared war against civilization itself are the self-described jihadis and those who assist them. They have not only launched an external war against the United States and its allies but also are waging--at times with disturbing degrees of success, despite their minority status-...
There's No Need to Read Between the Letter's Lines
The persons who have declared war against civilization itself are the self-described jihadis and those who assist them. They have not only launched an external war against the United States and its allies, but are also waging -- at times with disturbing degrees of success, despite their minority sta...
Pre-emption, Iraq and Just War : A Statement of Principles
War Should Be Our Last Resort
Because justice is so important, war is a legitimate and necessary part of political life. But just-war teaching also makes clear that war is, at best, a necessary evil, in part because war requires the taking and sacrifice of human life, and, in part, because war is such a blunt and uncertain instr...
War Should Be Our Last Resort
Because justice is so important, war is a legitimate and necessary part of political life. But just-war teaching also makes clear that war is, at best, a necessary evil, in part because war requires the taking and sacrifice of human life, and, in part, because war is such a blunt and uncertain instr...