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Entry: The Subversion of Lawrence Dennis Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_subversion_of_lawrence_dennis#5948 Post contents: "Excellent essay Justin, as the son of an America Firster, who hated war and capital punishment I salute you." - Jack Your father sounds like a very good man, Jack. Much like my own parents who strongly opposed Roosevelt's war although they were too apolitical to belong to any organization like America First. I'd like to say your father was ahead of his time, but the routine and deliberate slaughter of civilians in wartime by all sides and then the identification of this war as "the good war" has now led to an endless series of wars where the proportion of civilian to military deaths mounts higher and higher. I take some comfort from the fact that my own church, the Catholic Church, approaches more and more to a practical pacifist position in its development of doctrine. In just war teaching, the evil done by war must be less than the evil supposedly averted by going to war. When civilians are either deliberately targeted or suffer hugely disproportionate losses as "collateral damage" of monstrous weapons, it's hard to see how this condition can be satisfied. Inadvertently the present Holy Father may have given an example in his youth of one of the few just applications of modern soldiering, as a member of an anti-aircraft home defense unit, trying to defend German civilians from slaughter by the FDR/Churchill air fleets. An occupying army can be reasoned with or resisted by non-violent means, but a bomber is a legitimate military target. In the future, the warlords hope to carry out their killing by missiles, robot bombers, and unmanned remotes. This trend is already quickly gaining momentum. Sent at: 2008 05 16