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President Trump: Consider Only a Just War!

President Trump climbed out on a limb and handed his enemies a saw when he announced to the world that additional threats from the North Korean dictator would result in “fire and fury.” He seemed to say that he would face down the schoolyard bully (Kim Jong Un) and knock the chip off his shoulder. […]

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Send Marines to Rescue Americans!

I’m perceived as a hawk although I’m really a cross between a hawk and a dove! I believe in “just wars” as espoused by Augustine of Hippo and extended nine hundred years later by Thomas Aquinas. Few people know that the first example of a just war was Abraham who led his army of 318 […]

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