Birlow Just War Theory
-Brimlow talks about the draft and this use of men to promote war. Brimlow himself does not support the concept of supreme emergency. He says, “Let me very clear: even if just war theory is fatally flawed” (Brimlow, 2006, Pg. 69). He talks of the justification of killing and how Walzer speaks of the sacrifice of the innocent being ok in supreme emergency. This is almost a contradiction to what most just war theorists believe in. “This is of crucial importance, because even just war theorist deny that it is ever justifiable to kill the innocent directly and intentionally” (Brimlow, 2006, pg. 69). It seems that he uses this form of contradiction to show how he critiques. Brimlow talks about several events but a particularly problematic event