A moral action is one that upholds and strengthens the ties that bind a community together, so how can a foreign incursion into sovereign territory be regarded as moral? The U.S.-led coalition’s military intervention against the Islamic State raises an interesting question about the place for morality in foreign affairs, and exposes this specific case for closer scrutiny of the presence of a moral argument.
Op-Ed: “Iraq Isn’t Our Fight”? Think Again.
Our nation is understandably weary of wars that have cost us dearly – both financially and in human casualties – and achieved little but to engender deep resentment of the US in many areas of the world. But it is naive to think that we can simply leave Iraq behind.