Just War Theory? Yeah, right

What are we doing, America?

The world is a scary place. Especially since now, when people fight wars, they aren't using muskets any more, we're using guns. Really, really powerful guns. Not to mention bombs, gas, you name it. If there's any way to fight a war, it has probably been used before.

In my social justice class, I learned of the Just War Theory. The theory in many cases is cliche. Anyone who wants to declare war obviously believes that once they are finished, the world will be a better place. I do know that the Iraq War is a difficult situation. Since we started it, we might as well finish it. Yet finishing a war does not killing everything in sight or bombing everything that poses as a threat to the "cause". In my opinion, the war in Iraq is a war based solely on the concept of Manifest Destiny, or the idea that we are somehow chosen to spread Democracy and it's ideals to people who otherwise would've been lost without us.

Manifest Destiny is a bunch of bull.