On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 01:08:49 +0900, Declan Murphy
<declan_murphy@hotmail.com> brought down from the Mount tablets
inscribed:

>Michael Cash wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 06:14:25 +0900, "Shannon Jacobs"
>> <shanen@my-deja.com> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
>> 
>>>Duh, did anyone else see Fahrenheit 9/11 in Japan? Any interest in the
>>>actual issues discussed there? The main one was the rather serious question
>>>of whether or not the anti-Saddam war was justified.
>> 
>> It was justified. That does not, however, mean it was a good idea.
>
>I'm still not sure if it was justified (as in the Aquinas sense of 
>"just" war), the problem with these things being that I can never be 
>wise until a long time after the event, but at the moment I'm pretty 
>bloody sure it wasn't a good idea.

Still haven't gotten around to listening to my lecture series on
Aquinas yet, so I'll have to plead ongoing rampant ignorance on that
particular point. But I agree it wasn't a good idea.

It was either the right thing for the wrong reasons or the wrong thing
for the right reasons, and either way you add it up the math comes out
kinda screwy.




--

Michael Cash

"I am sorry, Mr. Cash, but we are unable to accept your rap sheet in lieu of
a high school transcript."

                                Dr. Howard Sprague
                                Dean of Admissions
                                Mount Pilot College