Concerning the Bush administration’s fervently desired war with Iraq, Thomas Friedman writes in the New York Times that: "I have no problem with a war for oil — if we accompany it with a real program for energy conservation." Now there is a blank check to make war as a matter of routine public policy. First, consider what Friedman has asserted. It is acceptable to make war for oil, i.e., to seize natural resources by combat. Friedman, of course, qualifies the notion of a "just war" for natural resources with the idea that one must not waste the resources acquired … Continue reading Might Does Not Make Right