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Assignment: Kandahar
Diplomat helps lead the U.S. mission in Afghanistan
Building on Success
A letter from President Morton Schapiro
A Support Base
Northwestern ramps up outreach to military veterans
Finding the Right Words
Center helps stroke patients recover language
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Actor has learned to run with whatever life presents him
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I was happy to see that Kevin Sites’ new book, The Things They Cannot Say: Stories Soldiers Won’t Tell You About What They’ve Seen, Done or Failed to Do in War [“War Stories,” summer 2013], addresses a little-discussed aspect of post-traumatic stress disorder and war in general, and that is the moral aspect of war. ...
In my opinion the Iraq War (less so the Afghanistan War) was especially problematic with respect to moral justification of warfare. The war in Iraq violated centuries-old, traditional just-war criteria, which come from the fundamental moral precept that it is not morally justifiable to take the life of a single human being except in absolute, necessary self-defense or defense of the lives of innocent others, after all other nonviolent options have been exhausted.
War is justified only when we have no choice. When you start a preventive war of choice based on insufficient justification, you are talking about killing many people unnecessarily, which is the moral equivalent of mass murder.
Joseph J. Locascio (G82)
Arlington, Mass.
