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Joanna Martin's avatar

Trump had no “Just Cause” to attack Iran.

It appears he attacked for the Reason that Netanyahu and other Zionists in Trump’s Cabinet and close circle TOLD HIM TO attack. And it further appears that they manipulated Trump by telling him that he is the Messiah chosen by God to be The One who ushers in the new Worldwide Kingdom of Jerusalem [or some such flattering rubbish].

And why did the Zionists want the United States to attack Iran? It appears that the reason is that Netanyahu wanted Iran’s oil - so they wanted a regime change in Iran to get a new regime which would bow to “Israel” and the United States and let them take Iran’s oil. It further appears that it is the former Shah’s son, Reza Pahlavi, whom “Israel” & the US wanted as the new Head of State for Iran and whom they intended to control. [Pahlavi did kiss the damned Wall.]

That Trump had no Just Cause to attack Iran is only part of his fatal error. Under the US Constitution, only CONGRESS has the power to declare war (Article I, Section 8, clause 11, US Constitution). Trump neither sought nor obtained Authority from Congress to attack Iran. So the war against Iran is unlawful as in violation of the Constitution of the US - in a nutshell, Trump usurped powers he did not possess.

Trump’s War is unconstitutional and violates ancient Norms of a “Just War”.

American military brass have the Duty to refuse to participate in Trump’s unlawful war. And the Congress has the Duty to remove this usurper from power via their power of Impeachment & Conviction.

Kevin Barrett's avatar

The claim that "the Crusades were justified" seems highly dubious. If the claim is that "my faith is correct, therefore I should commit mass murder to capture a land that is holy to many faiths and impose my faith and exclude/persecute others" then that argument works equally well for all of the quarreling faiths, and will lead to a bloodbath and eventual rule of the holy land by the most vicious and psychopathic (which is what we have now). A better argument would be: "The most tolerant/virtuous should govern the holy land on behalf of all, regardless of whether they are of my faith or one of the competing ones." Given that Muslims have historically shown, on the whole, vastly more tolerance than their competitors, because protecting other faiths is baked into their religion via scripture, most reasonable people should support Muslims ruling the Holy Land on behalf of all faiths, as has been the rule for the past 1400 years. When individual Muslim rulers become intolerant/vicious, all appeals to Islamic tradition and scripture should be fully exhausted before force is used to replace them. The replacement effort must be multiconfessional, and the replacements need to protect all faiths. The Crusades fail massively on all of these grounds, and were characterized by insane sadism, showing that they were demonically inspired, exactly like Zionism today.

Maristella Tonello's avatar

Ci sono guerre giuste e guerre sbagliate. l'Occidente non ha ancora capito questo concetto. La guerra giusta è quella contro gli usurpatori, la guerra ingiusta è quella fatta dagli arroganti che pretendono di sottomettere il mondo ai loro piedi. Io sto con la guerra giusta senza se e senza ma.