just-war

I am asked if I think the war was a just war ... how can I answer? I was a boy born and raised in beautiful Leningrad, a boy who loved his parents and went obediently to school. A boy who was yanked out of that life and dumped in a strange land where life followed different rules.

For many people, that war [WWII] is called the __ood war_ because it was fought against a regime guilty of unspeakable atrocities. But the Allies did not enter the war to save Jews from extermination. The United States entered the war after it was attacked by Japan at Pearl Harbor and, as a nation, we certainly did not do as much as we should have to save the Jewish population of Europe. The basic question is still with us: Is it right, justifiable, to intervene in a nation__ internal activities when those activities include genocide, ethnic cleansing, or some other demonstrable harm to a subset of its people?

There is no such thing as a "just" war. It's just war. And it's antithetical to the Gospel.

Bfore Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid.

Before Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid.