Just War Tradition

China’s invasion and annexation of Tibet in 1950 has too long been a forgotten episode of history

The use of cluster munitions is not inherently immoral.

Part I of Eric Patterson’s four part series on the Just War Tradition

We can rightly regret the necessity of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But their primary purpose was never the killing of large numbers of civilians.

The last essential requirement for a just war is to have a properly oriented set of intentions. These include rescue, justice, punishment, peace, and victory

Just War encompasses two overlapping but distinct forms of justice. Complex questions of desert accompany both, sometimes tragically.

The presence of certain kinds of evil in the world–including aggression against the innocent–signal the possibility that war must be.

Remarks delivered by Eric Patterson at Catholic University of America on Sept. 13th, 2022 on HR 1009.

We can be grateful for Congressman McNerney reminding us that force serves politics and not the other way around.