The Pros And Cons Of Just War

Register to read the introduction… Not exactly! The reason for entering the war was unjust, but according to the fifth policy of just war; "the ultimate goal of a just war is to re-establish peace. More specifically, the peace established after the war must be preferable to the peace that would have prevailed if the war had not been fought." Now this is exactly what is currently happening. Although there are still rebels and terrorist within the country, the United States has been trying to reestablish peace. They have also been building new schools, hospitals, places of worship, and homes, not too mention setting up the first fair election in the country's history. So under these circumstances the war could be considered just, but since it was started unjustly, can the war as a whole be considered just? The answer is simply no! The mistakes and unjust actions certainly outweigh any positive outcome. Part of the positives would be rebuilt cities and buildings, the same cities and buildings we blew up and destroyed unjustly in the first place. Nearly five thousand innocent Iraqi civilians were killed during the just the bombing phase in the beginning of the war, and nearly ten thousand total. In part of the final policy of war it states, "The weapons used in war must discriminate between combatants and non-combatants." Now, how can dropping bombs on a city that has a high population of civilians follow the criteria in the final policy stated above? Missiles and bombs can not determine whether a target is a military establishment or not, only the pilot …show more content…
Bill Clinton was considered to be one of the best Presidents of all time, because he created more then ten million jobs and lowered unemployment. The truthful sadness of this statistic is that he did not do this for his own country. He created more then ten million jobs worldwide, meaning a majority of them on foreign soil. A high percentage of those jobs once belonged to U.S. citizens, and a majority of these new jobs and positions were relocated to China. The reason this occurred was because it become much cheaper to produce normally made U.S. products in other factories in another country. This way of thinking is referred to as Globalism or Global