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Old 12-01-2006, 14:53 PM   #54 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by astralis View Post
yirmeyahu,

you seriously need to educate yourself on the terms jus en bello and jus ad bellum. try reading st. augustine, or st. thomas aquila, for starters. you have very little idea of what a "war crime" is, and this ignorance makes you look like a relativist moron.

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did they change the fundamental justice of the war against japan? my point was that you are mixing up jus en bello and jus ad bellum, and demonstrating that the numbers game of "who killed more" is moot in determining justness in this case.
Yirmey,

Michael Walzer's "Just and Unjust Wars" is the gold standard book for college texts on this subject.
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