Paste your text in here…Terrorism would fail such principles because western nations have a just cause against ISIS because they videotaped beheadings of western hostages and have cause attacks. Terrorism doesn’t follow any of these principles because these principles of just war are about ending that war, they aim; to a just end. These principles are a set of rules for military combat and for a greater good. Let’s take the Islamic State, for example, they have control of entire cities, they execute and they treat the Iraqi minorities like they’re not human beings such as the Yazidis and by doing that they already violated most of the principles if not all of them like civilian casualties. A military campaign against ISIS have to act in accordance with the requirements of the just war theory to not kill any civilians while fighting the enemy, however, it’s unavoidable. Terrorism is not about talking and negotiation peacefully these people are radicalized and won’t do things peacefully.
The military campaigns of the United States in Afghanistan and Iraq did meet the standards of just war theory. After 9/11 happen the United States declared war towards Afghanistan because the attack was made by al-Qaeda and there was a reason for it. Iraq was invaded by the United States in 2003 because the U.S felt threaten by Iraq because they though Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. The United States military campaign meets the standards because these wars were necessary to change evil. Just cause because the reason for this war was a terrorist attack to the United States and a posed threat to peace and the right intention, which is to reestablish peace. The United States doesn’t only have a moral right to defend against terrorism, but an obligation when joining others.
The military war against ISIS would meet the requirements of just war because they’re aggressive and use force. ISIS doesn’t care about innocent people because they hide and use them as shields. The Islamic States use people or civilians as a suicide bomber to attack innocent people. They use excessive force. ISIS is not really representing anyone which is one of the requirements of just war. ISIS is a huge threat not just to the United States but the entire world because they are beheading hostages from around the world that they kidnapped.
Jan Narveson, a philosopher who taught moral issues and ethical theories, says that the biggest thing about terrorism is to scare people. Narveson says that there are different types of terrorism within the country. The two types of terrorism are government terrorizing people which is state terrorism and when people terrorize other people which are internal terrorism, political causes. Narveson says that ‘of the two, state terrorism is the overwhelming greater in the extent of evils done.’ He helps define the different types of terrorism and he expands it further. Narveson develops the concept of terrorism further. There is not black and gray area; there is nothing in between just a black area. Narveson talks about how political insurgent are not as powerful and strong as the state because they don’t have the resources and the power and they are weaker. Also, he says that terrorism could be just because, ‘The German officers’ plot to assassinate Hitler in 1944 was of the same general kind of terrorism’ for example, early this year and ISIS commander was killed by a United States airstrike. This assassination was plot because they planned where Omar al-Shishani was going to be at. Warplanes targeted Omar and killed him. In my opinion, this is terrorism but like Narveson said the terrorism could be just. I agree that terrorism could be just but only if is done to take terrorist like ISIS out that don’t follow the principles because they’re for the states, not the people. However, a few of us believe it’s morally unjustified.
The point of Just War Theory is to give the correct path for states to act in potential conflict circumstances. It just applies to states, and not to people, in spite of the fact that an individual can utilize the hypothesis to help them choose whether it is ethically appropriate to participate in a specific war. The War Theory gives a helpful system to people and political gatherings to use for their exchanges of conceivable ways. The hypothesis is not planned to legitimize wars but rather to forestall them, by demonstrating that going to war aside from in certain restricted conditions isn't right, and in this way states discover different methods for settling problems. Radicalize enemies can't be trusted to peacefully talk. How terrorism has this groups that think they represent someone but they don't. I talk about ISIS and how they kill their own people. In my opinion the just war principles doesn’t apply to terrorism or any terrorist groups just to the government.