But Was It Just?: Reflections on the Morality of the Persian Gulf War

Praise for But Was It Just?. This is a remarkable contribution to contemporary debate on the issues of distinctively contemporary war. For those who want to know what the strongest arguments are on each side of the issues it is essential reading. - Alasdair MacIntyre author After Virtue. A balanced and incisive debate on the morality of the Persian Gulf War. - Colonel Harry G. Summers Jr. author On Strategy II: A Critical Analysis of the Gulf War. I think Desert Storm was just but I admit its arguable. And nowhere is the morality of the Gulf War--any war--argued with more energy wit and conviction than in But Was It Just? The war sparked a national debate at once morally and politically important. But Was It Just? captures that debate in all its rich dimensions. - Fred Barnes The New Republic. A fine always thought-provoking and often moving collection of essays that shows not only the problems moralists encounter when they try to apply just war theory to a concrete case such as the Gulf War but also the need to ask whether this theory ought to be applied at all in a world where it often serves as a cover for power politics and where war has become a gruesome evil. It is a first-rate collection! - Stanley Hoffman Center for European Studies Harvard University.