Wednesday, July 20, 2005

LewRockwell.com Blog: It's Immoral to Shut Up During an Unjust (or Stupid) War: "'There is something immoral or amoral in the constant statement: I think it would be wrong, morally wrong, stupid, foolish for us to get into the war, but if we should get in, then it's the duty of all of us to rally behind the President. National unity before all else! National unity, even in the prosecution of an unjust war?

'If a war is unjust, then it must be opposed before the outbreak of hostilities and after. If a war is unjust I must refuse to be a party to the injustice after the declaration of war, as well as before."

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Fr. John P. Delaney, S.J.
The Catholic World, April 1941

(Via LewRockwell.com Blog.)