First Things first

Over at the First Things blog, Keith Pavlischek seems to think that I am off base in thinking our presence in Iraq immoral, but thinking also that leaving would be more immoral. He calls me out for supposedly disagreeing with St. Thomas Aquinas. Yet I think Aquinas’s second condition for waging war justly, which he cites, underscores my point: “Secondly, a just cause is required….”

I’ve written to Pavlischek and to First Things asking how invading Iraq pre-emptively on false premises meets that standard. No responses yet. 

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