""There will be times when nations -acting individually or in concert - will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified."



Sawzaw, all governments and leaders make such utterances when they go to war....and their people and their soldiers mostly believe them. The same statement might just as well have been made by Hitler, Goebbels, Mao Zedong, Stalin, Napoleon, Mussolini, Frederick the Great, Julius Caesar....

They always believe that their use of force is both necessary and morally justified.

That might be true. It might not. But they always believe it is true.

I have a healthy skepticism for such notions.