From Toronto-
As Canada’s CF-18 fighter jets pummel targets in Libya, joining a wobbly alliance spearheaded by the U.S., France and Britain, many wonder, “Is this military action morally justified?’
Both religious and secular institutions are in the process of formulating that justification.
According to Bishop Pierre Whalon of the Episcopal Churches in Europe, for example, the answer is a definitive “yes.”
Invoking the “just war” theory first proposed by St. Augustine (354-430), and later polished by St. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1224-1274), Bishop Whalon declared that the potential bloodbath of civilians, which would follow Moammar Gadhafi’s likely defeat of the rebels, demanded armed intervention.
Such humanitarian concern for Libya’s civilians also ostensibly prompted UN Security Council Resolution 1973.
Seeking an “immediate ceasefire” in Libya, the UN resolution states that “the widespread and systematic attacks currently taking place in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya against the civilian population . . . may amount to crimes against humanity.”
More here-
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/962164--libyan-intervention-a-just-war-or-just-a-war
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