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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (37537)	8/13/2002 12:12:18 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 281500

Much of that post was repititious, Hawk, so I'll simply let it pass. That earlier post, not to me, of your views, was quite eloquent. As for bits of pieces of this one. So you would disagree with Greeley with regard to what constitutes a "just" versus a "necessary" war?? I made it quite clear in my post, that I had no clear idea what the distinction, in Greeley's mind, was. As for his use of that distinction, to expand a bit on my previous response, I would guess that Greeley did not wish to get caught up in a long debate about what constitutes a just war, particularly in a short piece. So he said something like, let's skip that debate and just admit that WW2 was necessary. After all, there are volumes and volumes and volumes of debates on that issue. And it changes character as you go from Catholicism to Protestantism. I know a little bit about the latter tradition. So, again, I think the distinction between just and necessary wars was nothing more than a rhetorical device to avoid a debate he didn't wish to have at the moment. Oh, yes, something else, everytime we get a bit into the Iraqi issue you keep coming back to comparisons to Stalin and Hitler. If it works for you, it's fine with me. But it doesn't work for me. Very, very different situations. The comparison that works for me is one that someone else offered here in the past few days and that's Qaddafi (sp??). At least in the 80s. It worked out reasonably well not to invade.