It is calculated to drive the Kosovars away forever. In that calculation, as we all know, success is near at hand for Milosevic and his supporters. Against it, we can, that is, fight a just war. But with equal seriousness and passion I will say to you here that I do not believe that we are now engaged in a just war. I offer this view as my own in a spirit of openness and not of dogmatism or coercion.
War is capital punishment on a great international scale.
We cannot, as citizens, say we are indifferent to it because it does not affect our daily lives. As understood over centuries by philosophers, notably Thomas Aquinas, a just war is just only if it meets three important conditions. It requires, first, a just motive or principle. We have such a principle in Kosovo. But philosophers like Aquinas say that a just principle is never sufficient to warant the moral judgment that particular actions are just.