"There is no 'just war'"

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37. Ever read Twain's "The War Prayer"?

“Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth into battle — be Thou near them! With them — in spirit — we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended in the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames in summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it —

For our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimmage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet!

We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.

let's take your example of the American Revolution. A rather large number of colonials preferred to remain subjects of the crown. if they made their opinions known, what do you think happened? usually they were brutalized, their property confiscated. tarring and feathering was a popular punishment for loyalists - that's when you're pinned down and a bucket of molten pine pitch is poured over you. Sounds "just' to me, doesn't it you? And what of those colonials who remained loyal to the British crown - you know, their nation who refused conscription, or who refused to house and feed soldiers of the continental Army (remember, there was no third amendment!) Well, usually they were shot. Right there, military execution.

And what of the Native nations that participated in the war? Remember, if you will, that one big reason behind the revolution was that treaties restricted immigration westward into Indian lands. Those nations further had treaties with the British, and when the war went up, a lot of them joined in alongside their allies who were working to protect their rights. After the British lost, what happened to these native nations? well, their "siding with the British" (instead of, I dunno, breaking their treaties) was used as pretext for the beginning of the american genocide against native Americans.

There are sometimes "necessary" wars (The revolution was not one of them, by the way. WW2 would be) But there is never a just war. There's a distinction there.