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To: ItsonlikeDonkeyKong

It's like the other cheek was slapped and then some. there is the concept of "the just war".


16 posted on 05/15/2004 7:36:57 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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To: sheik yerbouty
I know about the Catholic framework for a 'just war', but I don't think St. Thomas Aquinas had Al Qaeda in mind when he formulated this doctrine.

Perhaps if he had been alive in a different time, we would have a much more robust policy coming from the Vatican.

18 posted on 05/15/2004 9:07:20 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid (Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Except for Mario Cuomo. He's butt-ugly. No two ways about it.)
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