Arguing About War by Michael Walzer
Arguing About War by Michael Walzer

Arguing About War (2004)

Oct 13, 2004

Walzer rejects the argument that the invasion of Iraq was justified: "It is only massacre or ethnic cleansing or mass enslavement in progress that justifies marching an army into someone else's country. That is what humanitarian intervention is, and that is not what the Iraq war was."

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