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Just War
Undeceptions with John Dickson
What Matters Is Motive
In a moving passage toward the end of the city of god, augustine writes: but the wise man, they say, will wage just wars. However, if he remember that he is a human being, it is far more true that he will grieve at being faced with the necessity of waging just wars. If they were not just, he would not have to wage them. War is massier than augustine's theorizing lets on. It's bloody, horrible, obviously deadly. My little country alone, australia, has lost close to a hundred and three thousand defense personnel in police actions, peace keeping and international conflicts since the 18 sixties.
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