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Article: The virtues of Sarajevo: reflections of a city dweller. (why West should intervene in the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina) (Column)
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- June 18, 1993
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Most of my adult life I have believed that the last "good" war was World War II, which, of course, didn't end well. The firebombing of Dresden and Tokyo and the dropping of A-bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki very clearly did not meet the just-war criteria I assiduously studied as a junior in college (though our ethics professor very definitely thought otherwise). Vietnam was the war of my young adulthood. By 1964, it was clear--to me anyway--that it violated all the just-war principles so carefully laid out in that ethics class. Ditto American adventures in the Dominican Republic, Central America, and more recently Grenada and Panama.
So why? Why? I keep asking ...
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