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Chemical weapons are horrifying and unreliable, and some military specialists have questioned whether Saddam would resort to them. Poisons might not be highly effective because modern armored vehicles have filters to keep them out and infantrymen wear protective gear. But Saddam is determined to kill as many allied troops as possible, and his chemical shells caused an estimated 25,000 Iranian deaths...
...recapture the Holy Land, St. Thomas Aquinas listed three elements of a just war: combat must be waged by competent government authority, the cause must be just, and there must be a "right intention" to promote good. Later Catholic thinkers added the notions that war should be a "last resort," that it should have a probability of success, that anticipated good results must outweigh the suffering that it would cause and that war should be "discriminate" to protect noncombatants...
...many of the just-war criteria. Questions about whether "competent authority" endorsed the gulf campaign died out once Congress had voted its support. The moral opposition revolves around two classical yardsticks. "We believe that ((the use of)) offensive force in this situation would likely violate the principles of last resort and proportionality," stated the President of the U.S. Catholic hierarchy, Cincinnati's Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk, as the Jan. 15 deadline for Iraq's withdrawal passed...
Hoffmann maintained that if the anti-Iraq coalition failed to defeat Saddam Hussein cleanly and quickly, the U.S. could retreat into isolationism and destroy the possibility of collective security to halt future Saddamism. "Only a miraculously successful war--a swift victory through a limited resort to force--would dispel these dangers," Hoffmann wrote...
...Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. "It is a moral sense, even though it's entangled with professional pride and a sense of what works and what doesn't." Still, if the allied strategy of waging a fair fight should fail, the war's prosecutors may come under pressure to resort to more drastic means...