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Columnist and political pundit Christopher Hitchens championed war with Iraq in a heated debate with former Divinity School Dean J. Bryan Hehir last night at the Kennedy School of Government’s Forum...
Maintaining an opposing viewpoint, Hehir invoked the “just war theory,” first suggested by St. Augustine, to contend that war with Iraq would be immoral...
...moral only when it is absolutely necessary,” said Hehir, who currently serves as the president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA. “I think the case has not yet been made for necessity...
...stances Hitchens and Hehir held last night are not ones they have consistently adopted. Hehir endorsed the Gulf War while Hitchens opposed it. Hehir also supported intervention in Afghanistan earlier this year...
...Hehir served since 1998 after replacing Ronald F. Thiemann, who was forced out after pornography was found on his office computer...