Some of the Republican candidates claim Christian principles as guide and are ready to fight anyone to prove it – from gays to fellow Americans of a different faith or no religion at all. God is tossed around at interviews and at rallies like a beach ball thrown out from stage to stands at rock concert or before a football game. Playing the War Card to the Top of Candidates List: War is a term employed to legitimize many fights from “war on drugs” to war on terror” to “war” against the foreign flavor of the day. Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Michelle Bachmann and let’s not forget Herman Cain were in search of the foreign foe although some had problems locating the enemy on the map. Mitt Romney is also eager to join the combat gamers just to play to the riled up fans on the right – even though a few fellow Christians are eager to wage holy war against him and what they call his heretic cult. Santorum and Gingrich played the war card best. Santorum (Above Photo) though came out farther ahead because he impressed with his fervor and had assembled an even greater list of internal and external enemies for his holy wars. Size or at least length of list does matter in the rise up the polls! Santorum's blindside is somewhat ironic for someone who constantly speaks of grandparents who had escaped Mussolini’s Italy as the fascist leader sought conquest in Africa and Europe. (Read: - “Will This Man Be America’s Next President - Rick Santorum?” - diplomaticallyincorrect.org/films/blog_post/will-this-man-be-americas-next-president-rick-santorum-by-ambassador-mo/43235). “Just War Principles”: Ron Paul is not particularly comfortable of invoking God. I really do not know if or how religious he is - being a disciple of Ayn Rand. Read: - "The Un-warrior - Return of the Jedi Ron Paul" - diplomaticallyincorrect.org/films/blog_post/the-un-warrior-return-of-the-jedi-ron-paul-by-ambassador-mo/43121. He did though point out that one of the foundations of Christianity has been the “Just War Principles” first espoused by St. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas; War is only justified under the following conditions: • The damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain; • All other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective; • There must be serious prospects of success; • The use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated. The power as well as the precision of modern means of destruction weighs very heavily in evaluating this condition. ***At bottom of page is “Just War Principles as presented by Mount Holyoke: Holy War: Islam has its own problem with abuse of the term and concept. “Jihad” has lost its more noble definition of struggle for something better including oneself to something perverted in theological and political terms. Unfortunately every religion has gone through a similar degradation, lesser or greater. Holy War no longer has legitimacy in claiming the banner of God, and particularly not in the debates for the highest office in the United States – the most free country even perhaps if not as secular as the Founding Fathers has envisioned. Also Read – “Fat Lady Sings for Newt Gingrich?” - diplomaticallyincorrect.org/films/blog_post/fat-lady-sings-for-the-new-gingrich-by-ambassador-mo/43403 By Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey



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 Principles of the Just War: (Link at - www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pol116/justwar.htm) • A just war can only be waged as a last resort. All non-violent options must be exhausted before the use of force can be justified. • A war is just only if it is waged by a legitimate authority. Even just causes cannot be served by actions taken by individuals or groups who do not constitute an authority sanctioned by whatever the society and outsiders to the society deem legitimate. • A just war can only be fought to redress a wrong suffered. For example, self-defense against an armed attack is always considered to be a just cause (although the justice of the cause is not sufficient--see point #4). Further, a just war can only be fought with "right" intentions: the only permissible objective of a just war is to redress the injury. • A war can only be just if it is fought with a reasonable chance of success. Deaths and injury incurred in a hopeless cause are not morally justifiable. • The ultimate goal of a just war is to re-establish peace. More specifically, the peace established after the war must be preferable to the peace that would have prevailed if the war had not been fought. • The violence used in the war must be proportional to the injury suffered. States are prohibited from using force not necessary to attain the limited objective of addressing the injury suffered. • The weapons used in war must discriminate between combatants and non-combatants. Civilians are never permissible targets of war, and every effort must be taken to avoid killing civilians. The deaths of civilians are justified only if they are unavoidable victims of a deliberate attack on a military target.