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If this is going to fall into an ad hominem fallacy, then you dolt.

You are not even worth it anymore. You claimed analytical philosophy?

Gary Childress, you make no sense. All you do is claim, then no proof. Scholastics did distinguish defensive, and offensive Wars: Wars is self-defensive if waged to avert an injustice still about to take place; it is offensive if the injustice has already occurred and what is sought is redress (Nard...

Gary Childress, you post really educated posts.

Gary Childress. The United States is morally finished. What morals should we follow? Life is easy to hide behind someone willing to sacrifice their life so that you may have non-violence.

“If someone comes to kill you, kill them first,” Talmudic maxim. Shalom is the achievement of the Messiah. Ultimate Pacifism: The ruin of some is the ruin of all. Wars can never be the efficient cause of peace. Catholic Natural Law: Ius gentium Bonum ex integra causa, malum ex quocumque. Alexander o...

President Donald Trump or the conflict with Iran is what you dislike? Ius in Bello, "And fight in God's cause against those who wage war against you, but do not transgress limits, for God love not transgressors" (2:190).

My argument has been analytical philosophically.

Is this an analytical argument or a continental discussion in philosophy?

If self-defense is war, then realists are security. Self-defense is war. Realists are security. Ius ad bellum and Ius in bello are traditional requirements for Just War Theory. War is, "Organized violence carried out by political units against each other.":

Conflicts.

USA has not been to war since WW II, Gary Childress that is an act of congress.