One would think that Carroll, an ex-priest, might understand "just" war. But one would be wrong.

If you'd like, use THIS form to send a letter to the editor of the Boston Globe.

Hey Carroll, Come down to NY and write this crap, your career will last five minutes and you will leave town with a police escort.

So much baloney in one article; it's not even worth making the effort to analyze it.

Also posted here with the original title

It's very hard to see the big picture when his head is firmly implanted in his anal orifice.

By Carroll's reasoning, Midway was not necessarily an American victory because we lost a carrier bigger than any of the four we sunk. Further, there was no way to independently confirm claims the Japanese Naval Code was cracked as this information remained classified until long after the war.

"Next we will be called kooks." KOOK!

It's not just because commie journalists aren't told anything? This guy obviously has no clue.

Thanks. I did a search on Carroll and nothing popped, so I posted.

One major difference in the terrorist attack strategem and the US campaign is that our logistical tooling up for war is open for public scrutiny, whereas the terrorists' 2 years of living and preparation in a nation without walls was not only not publicly exposed, but defended by the same liberties granted to all citizens of the US.

The article is grossly deceptive to imply a massive military campaign by the US has amssively destroyed Afghanistan.

To date we only show a MEU having been deployed preceded by possibly some covert and bombing runs from far away air bases. These types of attacks are far from massive. They are only company, battery, and squadron level attacks at surgical levels.

IMHO, it's time to counter-battery fire the Boston Globe for condoning the bahavior of terrorists and terror-condoning governments by inaction and the Boston Globe's failure to remember 9/11. The war is only beginning, and the Boston Globe wants to star anti-war campaigns now, to aid and abet those within our country who might cause terror in the future amongst Americans.

No need for the Boston Globe to continue. Those with power in information warfare should counter the Globe and nip their pro-terrorist stance in the bud.

Don't worry. Every anti-Catholic Protestant on this forum will condemn James Carroll for being insane, stupid and dishonest. And he is all of those.

But, when Carroll writes his next fraudulent column bashing the Catholic Church, they will weigh in praising his wisdom, intelligence and forthrightness.

Just you watch.

Journalists impeded by restricted access and blind patriotism have uncovered even less

The presumption of guilt is considered fair by the US media whenver it's possible to construct it on non-liberal components of government.

Make the profits and returns of the investors of these media outlets dry up now!

Boycot the lying, biased and unfair press!

HF

I always pick a word from the title. Some people can't spell an author's name correctly.

He makes two good points. Perhaps due to the secretive character of surgical special operations that, one hopes, are undertaken, or to the general manipulative inclinations of government, we only know what we are told about this war, and it isn't much. Secondly, and old style trench-and-bombers warfare against a subsitute enemy may do little to disable or even punish Al Qaeda.

However, he is wrong on two major points. A war against an oppressive regime is nearly always just. One way it would be unjust if it is unrelated to the national interest; then it would be unjust to us American citizens. The only other way to make the war against the Taliban unjust is to wage it primarily against civilians. Neither obtains at present: if disabling Al Qaeda is in the national interest then disabling the Taliban governemnt that enabled it is also in the national interest; and there is no evidence that civilians are targeted other than by mistake or to the extent the combatants mingle with them.

Lastly he is wrong to muddle the boundary between America's economic and military cooperation with wilful and legitimate partners in the Middle East, and acts of terrorism. We may have a base in Saudi Arabia, oil interests, and a friendship with Israel, and all that is not in any way a part of any "cycle of violence". The only way to prevent the Twin Tower massacre from starting a cycle of violence is to destroy Al Qaeda and any government that harbors such organization.

Defense of Liberty: Just Intervention

This war is not ''just'' because it was not necessary. It may be the only kind of force the behemoth Pentagon knows to exercise, but that doesn't make it ''just'' either. The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 could have been defined not as acts of war, but as crimes.

What utter nonsense! Scores are killed in a armed, air piracy attack, directly on the center of our military high command and this idiot considers it a merely a crime, presumably for the local constabulary and its fingerprint analysts.

Carroll is clearly a raving looney and we are "unjust" if we in any way help pay his salary to write!

HF

I did a search on Carroll and nothing popped, so I posted.

Not your fault. Author search has been broken for a couple of months.

I'm more appalled by his complete lack of understanding of just war theory. As a catholic priest, he has no excuse for not knowing it: St. Augustine developed it. I posted a summary of just war theory on the mirror thread for this article here, if you're interested.

an ex-priest, might understand "just" war

Precisely why he would not! They don't teach enough Aquinas in seminaries anymore. The better seminaries are now just getting back into Thomistic theology.

In my most elegant words (and not to get banned) I have but one statement to make.....This guy is a commie-loving traitor.

Lighten up! I am a Protestant-Southern Baptist- and I like and almost always agree with the Pope. I can't stand a broad brush. Remember, you can't get more Un-PC and reviled by the media as being a Catholic or a Southern Baptist.