tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547067420689722925.post6437856197420967870..comments2023-08-13T11:58:31.588-04:00Comments on Ghulf Genes: Functional EquivalentsADhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06408980212433714362noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547067420689722925.post-9282605564328087202010-04-05T13:46:20.524-04:002010-04-05T13:46:20.524-04:00The cunningly artful term "Just War" sug...The cunningly artful term "Just War" suggests very cleverly justice, even virtue. But I have not heard of a war whose outcome could be characterised by these.. Even victorious wars involve "unhappy bystanders" and so-called "collateral damage" among their outcomes. Eventually histories, even written by the prevailing ations, often give the shocking accounting of these.<br />In reality war always was, is and will continue to be a scourge!Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14002034412151764344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547067420689722925.post-50106897689624762282010-04-05T12:50:07.017-04:002010-04-05T12:50:07.017-04:00This July 22 will mark the sixty-fourth anniversar...This July 22 will mark the sixty-fourth anniversary of the bombing of the King David Hotel by Jewish terrorists. I believe it was last year that Netanyahou placed a plaque on the site, celebrating the event, and prompting Her Majesty's Government to protest such a memorial for the death of a number of Brits.(It wasn't a suicide bombing, but it killed the unhappy bystanders just as well.)<br /><br />64 years is a long time.<br />It was 1946, just after WW II. Yet how recent it all seems to us, who live in the embrace of this never ending story of War - Cold War - Terrorists - and More War. <br /><br />Moral high ground disappeared just before carpet bombing...more than 60 years ago. Just War doctrines similarly disappeared, not recently, but a long time since.<br /><br />We have been fighting Muslim insurgents in the southern Philipines for 100 years now.<br /><br />How easy it is to pretend that everything is recent, thereby seemingly lessening the depth of our abasement.Montaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00017648070522030951noreply@blogger.com