Earlier today, TMV co-blogger Tony Campbell took on President Obama for his reference to “just war theory” in his Nobel speech in Oslo. “Just war theory” is generally associated with Christian theology, specifically to Saints Augustine and Thomas Aquinas.
Here is a blog post by Ron Ballew from 2006, which delineates what, under the theory, constitutes a just war. Does Mr. Obama’s new strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan conform with these criteria?