{"id":55,"date":"2003-08-07T01:46:28","date_gmt":"2003-08-07T05:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=55"},"modified":"2006-06-27T23:15:36","modified_gmt":"2006-06-28T03:15:36","slug":"the-concept-of-a-just-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"The concept of a just war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The concept of a just war<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A lot of what Chris talks about two or three articles down discusses the fact that America had a higher purpose in invading Iraq, that of saving the Iraqi people from the slaughter of the Baath party. While such a slaughter has occurred, the policy, at least to me, remains troubling on moral grounds and the precedent it sets.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/week619\/perspectives.html\">here<\/a> and follow some of the links at the bottom. They go through the argument of the just war pretty well, decidedly better than I can do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of a just war A lot of what Chris talks about two or three articles down discusses the fact that America had a higher purpose in invading Iraq, that of saving the Iraqi people from the slaughter of the Baath party. While such a slaughter has occurred, the policy, at least to me, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=55\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The concept of a just war&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}