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Is the Afghan War Justifiable Under the Light of the Just War Doctrine?

Is the Afghan War Justifiable under the Light of the Just War Doctrine?
A. Abstract
B. Introduction
C. Definition of Just War
1. Evolution of the doctrine
2. Elements of the concept of Just War
3. The Catholic Church
a. Saint Thomas Aquinas
b. Saint Augustine
c. Grotius
d. Franciscode Vitoria
D. Just ad Bellum
1. Just Cause
2. Competent Authority
3. Comparative Justice
4. Right intention
5. Last resort
6. Probability of success
7. Proportionality

E. Just in Bello
1. Discrimination
2. Proportionality
3. Right Intention
F. Causes of the Afghan war (9-11-01)
1. The Taliban regime
a. Characteristics of the regimeb. Response to the petition of the US after 9/11
c. Rebuilding Afghanistan
d. Protecting and reintegrating
G. The campaign of the US and its NATO allies in Afghanistan
1. Was there a just cause for the war?
2. Was it declared by a competent authority?
3. Was there a comparative justice?
4. Did Afghanistan make a right intention in the war?
5. Did Afghanistan apply alast resort?
6. What were the probabilities of success that Afghanistan had in the war?
7. How was the Afghanistan’s proportionality?
H. Conclusion

Abstract
Through time there have been wars that are necessary and others that simply were inexcusable. Religions were the ones that first began to think in just and unjust wars. For example, Jewish law believes in the obligatory wayin which the opponent shows aggression; permissible war in which the adversary is prepared to attack; and forbidden aggressive, expansionist wars. Besides, Islam religion allows only holy wars which are against the ones that do not believe in the true Islam. Medieval Church considered legal wars by simply having legitimate purposes. An example of this is President Bush and his ideal to fightagainst terrorism. On September 9, 2001, there was a terrorist attack in the United States in which the terrorist from the Islam group called Al-Qaeda crashed two planes and the twin towers collapsed. Therefore, the United States declared the War on Terror invading Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban regime. In this paper, we explain why Afghan War is considered a just war. There are seven basicprinciples for a war to be considered a just war. These are: The cause must be just; a lawful authority must decide to resort to force; the intention of the war must accord with international law; the use of force must be a last resort; the probability of success should be high; the cost benefit radio should be positive; and the means used must conform with international humanitarian law. Although theUnited States has not follow all these seven rules to have a just war it is consider right since it purpose is to protect the US citizens. It is also believed that the evil actions the United States made against Afghanistan are paid off by the good strategies it had made.

To begin with Afghanistan is a country in south-central Asia. It is an important crossroad that connects Europe, and theMiddle East to Asia. For this reason it has been known as an important and fertile land that has even been subject to wars. The vast landscape of mountains and deserts has made it a hard for nations to take the land and easy for the independent people maintain. This has made the nation be one in itself; as many of these independent people form alliances and don’t cooperate with the Afghanistanregime.
It is said that Saint Thomas Aquinas took a pacifist look in his just war theory. In his Summa Theologica he focused on the chapter of Matthew 5:39 that states: ‘Do not resist evil’ which meant by him to be patient in the light of the just war. He was against any resort to armed force, and therefore preferred a sort of pacifism. He proposed three principles which need to meet before a...