Theory Of Just War

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War is the most devastating, destructive, and catastrophe event that causes merciless slaughter, disease, starvation, and economic downturn. The results are horrifying such as mass killings and causalities and leave terrifying psychological effects on the victims. Civilizations and infrastructures are destroyed, education is disrupted, young and old people, as well as women and children, suffer and life is completely halted. It is perceived that war is a massive operation dedicated to the attempt to try to contain a security threat caused by another country or organization, one which has the capacity to cause serious damage to a people and their way of life. As Thomas Hobbes said, that human nature is to compete for resources, power against …show more content…

During the interview conducted by Steve Inskeep, the interviewer asked the opinion of Michael Walzer over the intervention of the USA in Iraq. Walzer gave reference to the Just War theory that discussed the idea of the self-defence. He explained that “if somebody attacks me in the street and I respond forcefully, that 's a miniature version of a just war” (Just and Unjust Wars Author Critical on Iraq, 2005). If some bystander rushes to help me, that 's also a miniature version of a just war. Moreover, he said that there is a difference between notions beyond the realm of these kinds of attacks across personal or state boundaries to include the notion of a humanitarian intervention. If somebody had gone into Rwanda to stop the massacre, that would have been a just war (Just and Unjust Wars ' Author Critical on Iraq, 2005). Walzer regarded USA attack on Iraq unjust war because he said that using a military force in another country should be a cause of urgency, means where a massacre in progress, but not the massacre in memory. He further said that why he believed that the USA intervention in Iraq is unjust. He mentioned that there are a lot of terrible governments, and it is better to restrict the use of force across international boundaries for the sake of some notion of global stability, but also because as we 've learned when you unloose the dogs of war, you get a lot more violence and a lot more deaths than you anticipated in the scenarios you sketched out when you were planning the attack (Just and Unjust Wars ' Author Critical on Iraq, 2005). In other words, USA intervention in Iraq was not a good idea as it started an unending civil war and affected the global

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