Just War

Introduction

According to Clausewitz, “war is an instrument of policy”. Political purposes are which should determine the use of the military forces - as conquest, struggle against aggression and survival, territorial and economic achievements, influence on other States, or others. It goes to war to obtain either a better peace to preserve the existing situation before the start of the war. Going to war to extending it endlessly and without prospects for peace is meaningless . Sometimes, to make peace is extremely difficult. Without a doubt, as argues Boff, "all war is perverse because it violates the commandment of natural ethics" .

For Bellany, “the reflection is associated with the dilemma of whether should be given or not war, and if so, with conditions that it had to comply with to be morally justifiable. The moral justification is different from policy - since the latter has to do with the reasons of prudence or power that are invoked to make the war - or legal justification, referring to his statement and realization within the national and/or international law” .

However, questions are presented as: When a country is attacked by another, what should they do? When a country are presenting crimes against humanity, Is it valid to assert the principle of non-intervention in internal affairs of

The vote of the Security Council of the United Nations, that resolution 1441 was adopted to eliminate WMD in Iraq, was legitimate; however, the US was not in a situation of imminent threat to its territory, which would have possibly possessed the legitimate authority to attack Iraq. But to the not having to demonstrate the threat of aggression strongly, the only legal authority in the conflict happens to fall on the Security Council. The US did not get a resolution that would allow an attack agreed by the international