My personal opinions on the matter aren't too contested. It's hard to imagine there can ever be a good enough reason to ever morally justify the killings of another. It does seem like nowadays if wars aren't for vengeance they are for some economic or political gain. Uses the actual Earth as a large "Risk" board but indeed the pawns are real people.
But given that is what is actually happen, is their an idealistic war? Only one I could ever think of is a war that is for true justice... justice of the highest level. So high that I probably can't define it and will therefore maintain Socratic Wisdom. Indeed, for me it is hard to support the "who attacked first" wars. Or anything along the line where violence leads to more violence without a pure cause.
Yet when it comes to this situation I'm always reminded of this quote:
"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."- Albert Einstein
Really a good quote. As much as we humans might think peace can be obtained through strife and struggle, don't we only perpetuate the problem. Perpetuate the idea that violence is okay in certain times. Gives the "enemy" a reason to fight back. Peace can never be obtained through violence because it is indeed an oxymoron.
So a moral war? I don't think it can exist unless the intentions are purely good in the eyes of justice. Considering that will probably never happen, it seems that a moral war doesn't exist to me. I disagree wholeheartedly with that of President Obama and probably numerous other American politicians. But I also agree greatly with that of Einstein and his conception of peace and war.
