Word: righteous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traditional conditions for a morally justifiable war, which are generally accepted by non-Catholics as well as Catholics, are that it be declared by a legitimate authority, for a righteous cause, with good intention, as a last resort, and waged with limited means. The two criteria for conduct of a just war that are especially pertinent to today's nuclear debate are "discrimination" (no direct killing of innocent civilians) and "proportion" (a war's devastation must not exceed the evil it seeks to overcome). Nuclear pacifists argue that these two factors necessarily rule out atomic warfare...
What the USIA is planning is not a mere documentary, or a symbolic show of support for Solidarity, but a program to be aired internationally, in a sort of cold war battle over the airwaves--the kind of show that portrays the evils of communism and the righteous causes of the good old USA. While the voices of campus groups ought never to be silenced or censored. Giamatti is right not to drag the name of a diverse liberal university into that particular realm of international politics...
...ordinary men endure the restless boredom of confinement. Five of them are given a week's pass to visit their families, and find that the same restrictions face them and their women on the outside. The country is a prison, every liberating impulse is indictable, and the more righteous villagers are all too willing to play judge and executioner. Adultery is punished by eight months of bread and water; indiscreet lovemaking demands instant and bloody death. In this remorseless landscape, where the subtlest smile on a stolid face can seem an act of anarchy, each prisoner must find fulfillment...
...aides as still "very, very pro-Israel" but deeply disillusioned with its present government. Some of his lieutenants go much further. Storms one, invoking privately a name still publicly taboo in Washington: "Begin is like Nixon. He just keeps going too far; he refuses to listen; he is self-righteous. You cannot conduct business with...
...naturally to them that it hardly bears remarking. There was a strange compliment concealed here. The world accused Israel so violently in part because the massacre profoundly violated Israel's own moral standards. Some of the vitriol, too, was just anti-Semitism dressed up to look like righteous indignation...