(One tradition in philosophy, utilitarianism, is based on the idea that all justifiable actions must be justified in this way).
Both seemed like justifiable actions.
In the aftermath of September 11th, however, the targeting and killing of individual Al Qaeda members without juridical process has come to be seen within the Bush Administration as justifiable military action in a new kind of war, involving international terrorist organizations and unstable states.
Almost no one has advocated a clear and justifiable course of action!
Probably the best-known representative of mainstream libertarianism is the Cato Institute, which also finds virtually no U.S. military action justifiable.
There are times (and issues) where the only justifiable course of action is to stand up and say: "This is wrong, and we must change it".
-An internal review found that two officers on a Tampa SWAT team were in "fear for their lives" when they fatally shot Jason Westcott on May 27, making their actions justifiable.
It energized younger dissidents, for whom almost any action was justifiable in the name of regime change.
America is heading in that direction, too.John Stuart Mill, the liberty-loving 19th-century philosopher, saw state action as justifiable to prevent deeds harmful to others.
Although its military occupation by Indian troops in December 1961 raised a furor in many Western countries, in the hindsight of history, Nehru's action is justifiable.
