"the war fails the just war test because its projected benefits do not “outweigh the harm which will be done.”"
Because a known financier and supplier of terrorist proxies will never give nuclear weapons to those terrorist groups. The mere possibility of preventing that outcome is a projected benefit that outweighs the harm that will be done.
Now, let's consider:
The 30,000 protesters Iran killed earlier this year
The thousands of lives lost at the hands of its proxies
Christopher lays out the other criteria that a war must meet to be “just” in his post. By all evidence the decisions in this one were not, and continue not to be, taken prudently or judiciously. 50 years of expert military planning was ignored.
You may be thinking here of utilitarianism, but there’s more to Leo’s view than that.
As a Catholic, I can see no justification
for a war that destroys the lives of innocent children and their parents. I pray that world
leaders begin to see that nobody wins in
such a needless, immoral war.
I've looked at the criteria of just War and I think those that are saying it isn't are most likely driven by ideology rather than objectivity.
"the war fails the just war test because its projected benefits do not “outweigh the harm which will be done.”"
Because a known financier and supplier of terrorist proxies will never give nuclear weapons to those terrorist groups. The mere possibility of preventing that outcome is a projected benefit that outweighs the harm that will be done.
Now, let's consider:
The 30,000 protesters Iran killed earlier this year
The thousands of lives lost at the hands of its proxies
That they have mined international waterways
They supply Russia with suicide drones.
Christopher lays out the other criteria that a war must meet to be “just” in his post. By all evidence the decisions in this one were not, and continue not to be, taken prudently or judiciously. 50 years of expert military planning was ignored.
You may be thinking here of utilitarianism, but there’s more to Leo’s view than that.
These things are true. But the only real solution would be to remove them the regime, and that would cost lots of lives.