A Moral War?

[halogamer1989]

Mr Khan said:

halogamer1989 said:
Yes, Neville, it is a moral and just war, and it is about damn time Obama announced that guys will have reinforcements on their 6. Although the cadets were nodding off at his speech @ WP.

All war is hell. The point is to defeat the enemy no matter the costs. Something about all's fair and all that jazz.

But at cost to whom? Us? Them? Civilians on either side? Who is the enemy, what is the mission, etc, etc.

 

These are the sticky questions that prevent morality from ever properly surfacing in war. It's extraordinarily difficult to strike the right balance between stopping the bad guys and just running roughshod over a sovereign country and people. What UN peacekeeping troops often do is not moral, because its generally not enough to stop the killings, and what the US has done in the past few wars has been amoral, because it often involved total destruction of a sovereign country's infrastructure (especially in Kosovo. We pretty much leveled Yugoslavia).

Maybe so.  Still, what country is asked to help out when the shit hits the fan?  That would be us, the USA.  We will complete the mission, and bomb the hell out of terrorists and not complain.  Every war has c.d.  Every war is justified in different ways.  The bombing of N and H is justified in US eyes b/c it would have saved millions of more lives and ended the war in '45 instead of '50.  It is a slippery slope but one that requires a sense of perserverance and commitment.  If we thought it was amoral then we would have left the mission (any conflict in history), the same with any other nation.