War should be justified the same way murder is, legally. Our rhetoric is effective enough that people don't see that.
i dont quite understand the second part of that sentence and disagree with the first part.
As far as i can tell, your statement implies there may actually be justifications for war.
While there are reasons such as greed, control, power and such like, there is only one real
"just war" and that is if you are the one being attacked and you are defending yourself.
Terror , is a Tactic not a Type/state of War. Politicians try to change often how language works to make us believe some very unusual and silly concepts. War on Drugs , Terrorism, Intelligence, ...
Keeping that in mind, a Terror attack is not an act of war, therefor not a reason to go to war over with another nation.
Normally you couldn't even point a Terror attack onto a different country but onto groups within that country.
These groups maybe accepted by the government of that country, that then still isnt a "just" reason to goto war with that country, to boycott them perhaps but not more. Wherby boycott also can be an attrosity and kind of terror, as if medicin isnt allowed into a country then you inflict death and pain and suffering onto people who weren't responsible for those Terror Attacks you try to punish.
A concept which seems to be complettly lost to the USA, is "Sovereignity of Nations". Have a look at the documentation "Dirty Wars", how many drone strikes had been done since Obama took over , how this type of terror makes the USA look like the thing they wanted to wage war against. Masters of Terror.
Do you feel safe now USA? When will it be enough? Is there anyone safe from you?
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I know there are nice and friendly people in the USA, as in any country, China, Kora , Iran, Israel, anywhere ...
and then there are those fucked up politicians trying to scare the shit out of their population and get more tanks been build.
If your educational system ahsnt done a good job, you may not notice, even if it works you still may be fooled.
WMDs, Gold of Tnkin, Lusitania ... the amount of Falsflag operations which tricked the Population of the one or other nation into war is mindboggling.