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War is never simple but it must be just

By Philip Stephens

Published: October 18 2007 19:50 | Last updated: October 18 2007 19:50

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So when should we go to war? In the shadow of Iraq it is surely a question we need no longer ask. We can wring our hands over Darfur, pass brave resolutions about repression in Burma, roundly deplore the depredations of Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe. But deploy might in the cause of right? Forget it.

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