Military Action Against Libya
March 1, 2011
I hear on the news that the US is sending a ship toward Libya. I also hear that military action against Libya is being considered. I thought military action was supposed to be against countries that were a threat to or had attacked the United States? If this can be justified, then anything can be justified.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
Libya or the United States?