#85 The Just War Illusion: When Killing Becomes Righteous
from Dead Reckoning
US and Iran trade strikes across the Gulf, with American soldiers killed in Jordan. We examine how both sides claim moral righteousness for their violence, using Aquinas's ancient theory of the 'just war' to expose what such doctrines reveal — and conceal — about power.
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