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Back in the day, when I was a young whelp engaging in high-school debate, one of the topics we argued was "Is There Such Thing As A Just War?". For a few months, then, I carried around a book by Michael Walzer...and today we are reunited. Walzer has written an op-ed in today's NY Times about what would constitute the boundaries of a just response.

"But military action is what everybody wants to talk about — not the metaphor of war, but the real thing. So what can we do? There are two conditions that must be met before we can fight justly. We have to find legitimate targets — people actually engaged in organizing, supporting or carrying out terrorist activities. And we must be able to hit those targets without killing large numbers of innocent people."
| posted by Alex at 9:32 AM