Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy » Christian Just War Doctrine, Is it Feasible Against Islam? By Tom Snodgrass

"The world civilization historians Will and Ariel Durant in their 1968 book, The Lessons of History, wrote: “In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war.” Looking at the 39 years since 1968, it is safe to say that the 268 number still stands. Since only 8% of recorded human history has been war-free by the Durant count, it is not surprising that mankind has attempted with very limited success to regulate the frequency of war and its conduct. What is surprising however are the huge numbers of people in Western Civilization who continually attempt to deny the reality of war. Whether or not war is an integral component to human existence (see my essays On War, Part I and Part II), war’s frequency attests to its unavoidability in human history when politico-religious entities reach irreconcilable impasse.

Since war is an undeniable reality in human life, and war in the guise of Islamic Jihad is currently erupting in every corner of the globe, I propose to analyze whether a viable moral approach to the war against Islam and it’s Jihad exists from a military man’s point of view. In order to do so, I would like to look at the morality of war-making in historical context, and then use that historical framework to examine the conflict between the US and the those who carry out Jihad to install Shari’a in Dar al-Harb (the “Land of War” or the territory where the Shari’a is not the dominant politico-legal system – or put simply, “the West”)."

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