Thursday, 1 March 2012

Fed: The difficulties of deciding when war is just

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Fed: The difficulties of deciding when war is just

By Don Woolford

CANBERRA, Feb 21 AAP - "The best lack all conviction," WB Yeats wrote in his poem TheSecond Coming, "while the worst are full of passionate intensity".

As the world contemplates war with Iraq, there is much passionate intensity.

Most is from the anti-war side, though there is passion too from those who insist thatsomething must be done about Saddam Hussein, even if that means going to war without furtherUnited Nations mandate.

Yet more probably still lack conviction, the majority that Prime Minister John Howardthinks have not yet made up their …

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