He then went further, defending justifiable wars in almost glorious terms.
"Justifiable" wars, with all the unfortunate "collateral damage" of incalculable property destruction and the deaths of innocent people, may often seem to be the last and necessary resort, yet wars and violence have never been sufficient to eradicate evil.
One way that Buddhist ethical theory might be used, in certain extreme cases, to justify war relies on Asaṅga's account of justifiable killing, discussed in section 4 above.
Over the past ten years, Republicans have often rightly opposed those who have mixed absolutely justifiable anti-war attitudes with unjustified attacks on non-political military officers doing difficult jobs.
Israel has cast its strike against Syria as justifiable in a war against terrorism.
It does not condemn Israel's conquest, for the good reason that most western powers at that time thought it the result of a justifiable pre-emptive war.
Her film will colour efforts to muster support for an adventure in Afghanistan that some consider hardly more justifiable than the war against Saddam.
But Mr. Singer said prosecutors in American criminal courts would face enormous obstacles in any case where the activity described as a crime under civilian laws might be viewed by a jury as justifiable in a war.
