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Somebody should probably inform the Whig Thomists of this fact.
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“All I can do is invite you to read the Catechism, and the conclusion seems obvious to me…” The conclusion was one he gave many times: "the concept of preventive war does not appear in the Catechism of the Catholic Church."
I think that when Michael Novak went to Rome to defend the invasion of Iraq, he didn't argue that it was a preventive war, but a war justified because Iraq broke the UN resolutions that followed the first gulf war.
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“All I can do is invite you to read the Catechism, and the conclusion seems obvious to me…” The conclusion was one he gave many times: "the concept of preventive war does not appear in the Catechism of the Catholic Church."
I think that when Michael Novak went to Rome to defend the invasion of Iraq, he didn't argue that it was a preventive war, but a war justified because Iraq broke the UN resolutions that followed the first gulf war.
Read Weigel and Neuhaus in FIRST THINGS. Weigel argued for a development of doctrine on Just War about exactly this topic.
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