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The War has begun.

I find myself not knowing what to think at this time. There is a black and white sticker that I got from the Roman Catholic Church that I can't decide if I should put up on my window. Its says, "Make Peace, Not War".

Which captures what I want to say, but what if? What if it is true that war is a means to peace? But is it possible that a peaceful end may have violent means? What if the US is correct and that Iraq has the "weapons of mass destruction" (gosh do I HATE that word) and the intentions to hurt and harm? What if...

I have been reading about the just war theory as espoused by Ausgustine and then later by Aquinas in The City of God. In The City of God, Aquinas refutes certain positions commonly held by pacifists even today. I have fragments of it in my brain right now, but I'm too lazy to write it out.

I wish it didn't have to come to this :(

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