November 14, 2003. ר When is War Justified?

A recent article in The Public Interest says

And in yet another public-opinion survey conducted in March 2003, almost one-fifth said that war is "never morally justified."
This suggests that in looking at the Afghanistan or Iraq wars, we should dismiss the first 20% of those polled who are against it as people who would have opposed the Revolutionary War or World War II also. Only beyond that baseline do we find people who think that any particular war has features which make it bad policy.

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