Word: walzer
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Last year, Harper won Brandeis's Michael Walzer Award for Excellence in Teaching, a prize which was well deserved, says Eugene Goodheart, chair of the Brandeis English Department...
...though the allies view their campaign in the gulf as just, there are moral limits to the conduct of war, even when confronting an opponent who behaves as despicably as Saddam. "Military professionals have a very strong sense of what distinguishes the work they do from butchering," says Michael Walzer, a professor of social science at the Institute for 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...
Proponents of war call dealing appeasement. Walzer says that it we make concessions, "we make ourselves complicitous in the aggression--and in all the further aggressive behavior that our action encourages, as the British and French were complicitous in the conquest of Czechoslovakia after Munich...
...arguments for war comes down to this: cause suffering now to save suffering later. As Walzer says, 'There are times when, if we are to preserve any decency at all, we must be prepared to count (and discount) human bodies...
...Walzer makes an extremely silly argument against demonstrating: War "might well be politically or militarily unwise, but that is not a matter for marching." if a war, even a "just war", causes immeasureable suffering, isn't that something to protest about? Aren't most difficult questions "moral questions"? Sharfstein says that a "bloody ground offensive to retake kuwait may not be worth the cost in American lives and in Arab hatred for the U.S. and Israel...