a "just war"?

[David Morris]

>From: Arne Herløv Petersen <herlahp at inet.uni2.dk>
>What would happen if other countries did the same kind of things the 
>Americans so blithely do?
>US-based Cuban terrorists in Florida have for more than 40 years carried 
>out sabotage, murder and other terrorist acts against Cuba. Would it be a 
>"just war" if the Cubans - or their old Soviet allies during the cold war - 
>had bombed Washington in retaliation, vowed to drag American citizens out 
>of the country to try them at secret military tribunals with no defense or  
>no possiblity of appeal, if the Cubans decided to get the American 
>President dead or alive, if he refused to deliver the exiled Cubans to 
>Habana justice?
[...]
>The list goes on and on, but you get the point. Just try to picture someone 
>else doing everything you are doing and consider if it would be "just".

When we're wrong we're wrong, and Cuba would be justified in taking out 
those US-based Cuban terrorists (not that these terrorist have had much of 
an affect on Cuba).  The fact that Cuba cannot do this does not diminish US 
justification for taking out the international terrorist stronghold in 
Afghanistan.  And the scale of affect those terrorists have had in the US 
(and very potentially the world) has been immense.

When we're right, we're right.
David Morris



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