Just war

[Don Laird]

Fortunately, I don't feel threatened.  The only source I can imagine of such
an attack against my office is the FBI or SWAT team.  And I am not going to
defend myself against a SWAT team or against the FBI.  The thousands of
murders by those two groups go generally unpunished and unprosecuted.  And
they have argued for the morality of their murders.  They have been awarded
medals for their murders.  They will never find me fighting against them.
They win their "just" attacks.

I don't ever call 'em a son of a bitch, either.  I just call them
delusional, behind their backs.

Don

----- Original Message -----
From: telebob x <telebob98@hotmail.com>
To: <dlaird1@austin.rr.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: Just war


>
> Well Don...just keep your position in mind the next time some son of bitch
> dives a plane into your office.
>
> tele
>
> >From: "Don  Laird" <dlaird1@austin.rr.com>
> >To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
> >Subject: Just war
> >Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 11:56:34 -0600
> >
> >The just war is the war justified by the winner.
> >
> >What about a war of defense, as when attacked.  Yes, the Iraqis seem to
be
> >engaging in a just war when American bombers fly over their airspace and
> >the
> >Iraqis use air defense weapons to try to shoot them down.  The Iraqi air
> >defense system is in fact a defensive system.   For the U.S. to respond
to
> >the Pearl Harbor attack seems to be a defensive response.   Two hundred
> >years of U.S. interventionism carry the emblem of a non-defensive war or
> >strategy.  The idea of the war in Kosovo being an example of a just war
> >seems laughable, only it's really not.
> >
> >We humans can justify absolutely anything, and so we claim that our wars
> >are
> >"just."  It's simply an extension of the common delusion that
individually
> >we are above average morally.   The belief that the U.S. engages in moral
> >actions is another extension of the common delusion that the U.S. is an
> >extension of ourselves, so to criticize it on moral grounds is equivalent
> >to
> >criticizing the individual.
> >
> >A so-called "just war" is not a problem of semantics, it's a problem of
> >psychology.  The man-made idea of morality or "just war" is so laden with
> >emotions that it's nearly impossible to think straight about it.  Its
> >definition seems vague and based in part on wishful thinking.
> >
> >At least that's the way it seems to me.
> >
> >Don
> >
> >
>
>
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