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[QUOTE]Originally posted by David Sands: [QB] Without going too deep into it tonight (I might respond with a larger post in 24 hours), I would respond that Sun Tzu was in his deepest insights a radically compassionate warrior in the model of Sts. Augustine and Aquinas. I guess I've been outed as firmly in the "just war" camp. Simply because someone ponders war and considers in historical implications (like in the first quote) wouldn't make someone a warmonger (not that any one of you has implied such, I want to be clear on that). I would just point out that we are all by virtue of this string pondering it. The second quote of his could be read two ways at two extremes: (1) make war unnecessary by some degree of pacifism, thereby ceasing to be a threat to potential enemies, or, alternatively (2) make war unnecessary by removing the conditions in adversaries' situations such that they no longer are compelled (by whatever intrinsic or extrinsic reason) to wage war upon you. There is a middle ground on this, yes, I know, but I thought I would illustrate the extremes and let the chips fall somewhere in between. Last night I had actually started a very long response to another post on this section of Flare along these lines, but it became too unwieldy a topic to do in one post and I abandoned it. I just didn't feel like trying to defend the war according to the just war tradition in a single post when I probably wasn't going to change any minds or even merit responses by my fellow Flare-ites. However, if anyone would like to engage in a dialogue, I'm willing to have a go at it in the interest of helping others understand the another side. Sorry this post doesn't get deeper, and I certainly would have more to say if it was 12 noon and not 12 midnight, but forgive my fatigue from a long day behind me and a long day ahead of me. I promise more if anyone wants to talk more. I just thought you all might like to hear from someone who would probably count as "from the other side." (On one final note, the signature was a bit inadvertant. I had forgotten about it from when I had made it years ago [have I been on this board for years?] when I was still an undergraduate. Funny how these things come back to you. No regrets, but certainly new insights on what I've learned in the interim.) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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