Peter Baker writes on Washington Post front page:
President Bush plans to issue a new national security strategy today reaffirming his doctrine of preemptive war against terrorists and hostile states with chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, despite the troubled experience in Iraq.
The exact language will important. On the surface, the President’s declared strategy is incompatible with the just war criteria of last resort, legitimate authority and, in the light of our intelligence failures, probability of success. The strategy statement might resolve this incompatibility. If not, religious leaders should be questioning the declared national strategy.
It is not as if the question were never raised before.
As the good people at the GetReligion blog would say, there are ghosts – religious and moral questions totally unexplored by the Washington Post.
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