Democratic Party and jus ad bellum
Writing by abuhatem on Thursday, 28 of August , 2008 at 5:25 pm
For anyone who thought that the democratic party was unimperialistic and antiwar, think again. As reported by both Andrew Sullivan’s blog and Reason magazine, the new Democratic party platform takes an awfully wide definition of jus ad bellum:
“We believe we must also be willing to consider using military force in circumstances beyond self defense in order to provide for the common security that underpins global stability-to support friends, participate in stability and reconstruction operations, or confront mass atrocities.”
For anyone dumb enough to be a democrat or republican and believe in real change, well, sorry for the disappointment. Reason magazine comments:
Um, I could be wrong, but isn’t that a fairly radical new doctrine on the use of military force? At the very least, it would certainly allow a wide range of interventions overseas. There are probably a dozen situations in the world today that would meet this test.
And thus unjust wars of aggression are reintroduced into policy by Orwellian euphemisms. Oh dear. How is this not different from the foreign policy of our current administration?
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