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Just war tradition has to do with defining the possible good use of force, not finding exceptional cases when it is possible to use something inherently evil (force) for the purposes of good.
James Turner Johnson
The War to Oust Saddam Hussein: Just War and the New Face of Conflict (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), 35-36Other Quotes from the Author & Topic
Peace and stability themselves are the fruit of justice. For this reason, peace is incompatible with a tolerance of evil.War, Peace, and Christianity: Questions and Answers from a Just-War Perspective (Kindle Locations 1057-1058). Crossway. Kindle Edition.
If we believe that if Britain had only been fortunate enough to have produced 30 percent instead of 2 percent of conscientious objectors to military service, Hitler's heart would have been softened and he would not have dared attack Poland, we hold a faith which no historic reality justifies.
Rather, it is an approach to statecraft that views peace as not only possible but morally obligatory as a by-product of justly ordered human relationships. Peace, in this light, is not to be understood merely as the absence of conflict; it is rather the fruit or consequence - the by-product - of a justly ordered society. At its best, the just-war tradition has worked to forge moral and political links between the limited use of armed force and the pursuit of peace, security, justice, and freedom.Charles, J. Daryl. War, Peace, and Christianity: Questions and Answers from a Just-War Perspective (Kindle Locations 878-882). Crossway. Kindle Edition.
just-war thinking is best understood as an approach to comparative justice applied to the considerations of war or intervention.
War, Peace, and Christianity: Questions and Answers from a Just-War Perspective (Kindle Locations 369-370). Crossway. Kindle Edition.
true religion looks upon those wars that are waged, not for motives of aggrandizement or cruelty, but with the object of securing peace, of punishing evil-doers, and of uplifting the good.
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