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June 27, 2007

Waiting to be attacked first is costly

The perspective by George Weigel on June 21 contains a very important point about pre-emptive attacks when waging a just war: “... a crucial moral point: faced with certain aggression, responsible public authorities need not wait for the aggressor’s first blow to fall.” Weigel is entirely correct about this; no teaching of the Catholic Church...
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