@article{438846,
      recid = {438846},
      author = {Weeks, Albert Loren,},
      title = {The choice of war : the Iraq War and the just war  tradition /},
      publisher = {Praeger Security International,},
      address = {Santa Barbara, Calif. :},
      pages = {1 online resource (ix, 200 pages)},
      year = {2010},
      abstract = {As American servicemen and women and U.S. civilian  employees continue to die on an almost daily basis in Iraq,  serious doubts about the justness and the wisdom of the war  continue to arise. A majority of the American public and  the international community now believe that America's  invasion and occupation of Iraq were not based on an  "imminent" threat to U.S. security and that the war was  unjustifiable as well as a tragic mistake. Current debate  rages on as it becomes clear that more is at stake than how  or when victory can be proclaimed over an enemy whose very  identity and whereabouts in latter-day counterinsurgency  struggle within Iraq are problematical. Meanwhile, with  bitter irony the Iraq population has become increasingly  anti-United States as Iraqis call for American and  coalition troop withdrawals. Moreover, large numbers of  American GIs, who are themselves deployed to the region,  give mounting evidence of appearing to be in favor of a  U.S. withdrawal. The most poignant of all questions  concerning the Iraq War is its moral justification. It  boils down to asking two key questions: Was the Iraq war  just? Was it fought in a just way?},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/438846},
}