Although I am well aware of the various theories of Just War, especially St. Augustine's, I am a pacifist through and through.
One of the reasons, oh and there are so, so many, why I could not abide the Tories was their cavalier (and I use the word carefully) was their attitude to war and conflict in general.
In 1982, at the height of the Falklands conflict, the submarine HMS Conqueror sank the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano.
Although justified in international law, I thought then (and do so now) that it was morally unjustifiable.
Moreover, Mrs Thatcher and the right-wing press headed by Rupert Murdoch's Sun, gloated sickeningly over the loss of life of some 1,000 Argentine sailors.
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