War and Terrorism

65	"Is the War on Terrorism a Defense of Civilization" Stephen Nathanson
66	"Just War Doctrine and the Military Response to Terrorism" Joseph Boyle
67	"Nipping Evil in the Bud: The Questionable Ethics of Preventive Force" Douglas P. Lackey
68	"Humanitarian Intervention" Charles R. Beitz
69	"Pacifism: Reclaiming the Moral Presumption" William J. Hawk
70	"Political Reconciliation" Colleen Murphy

Torture and Human Rights Abuses

Amnesty International: U.S. Officials Should Be Investigated for Torture.
CIA's Manual on Interrogation and Counterintelligence (1963)
"Confessions of a Torture." A story by John Conroy about Tony Lagoranis who tortured prisoners in Iraq. Lagoranis, author of Fear Up Harsh acknowledges his role as a torture.
Discussion before Senate of bill to declassify information about torture in Guatemala and Honduras (1998).
"White Evangelicals' Attitudes on Torture." According to a survey by Mercer Univesity, their views are not standardly shaped by the Bible or church doctrine.
"Torture in 2014" From Amnesty International
Politically Motivated Torture and Its Survivors. Journal on treating the survivors of torture.
Religion and Support for Terror. According to this survey, religious people—and especially white evangelicals—are the group most likely to support the use of torture. Religiously unaffiliated people are least likely.
Rwandian genocide. Discussion of the efforts to a UN peacekeeper, Romeo Dallaire, to save potential victims of the genocide.
"Top Secret America." A massive story in the Washington Post, based on two years of research by twelve reporters. It discusses the growth of the intelligence community after 9/11. Includes extensive interviews with current and previous high-level directors and managers of intelligence programs. Discusses the problems of such a massive beauracracy, and whether it really makes Americans any safer.
Torture links. Fairly extensive links to essays on torture, including part of a chapter on Bystanders from John Conroy's Ordinary People, Unspeakable Acts (Unversity of California Press, 2001).
"Torture, American Style" by the Historians against the War.
"Torture at Abu Ghraib" Syemour M. Hersh (New Yorker, May 2004).
TASSC International (Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International)
"U.N. Convention against Torture"
US National Defense Intelligence College's Analysis of Torture and other Interrogation Techniques. Questions common view of the supposed value of torture to obtain reliable information.
World Organization against Torture.

War

Aquinas, St. Thomas. "Of War." Aquinas description of "Just War" theory has been the foundation of most current debates on topic.
Antiwar.org. A site, run by libertarians, of essays and links opposed to the war against Iraq.
Andre, David. "The Nature and Conduct of War." A decorated officer during the Vietnam discusses the nature of war. Radio interview. [RealAudio]
"Buying the War." Bill Moyer's Journal special program on the failure of the major media to cover the run up to the War in Iraq. The entire show in either Real audio or Windows Media Player.
Camus, Albert, "Neither Victim nor Executioner." Camus fought in the French Resistance. After it was over, he found himself drawn to pacifism. This essay, published in the French press, explains why.
Clausewitz Links. Carl von Clausewitze was a Prussian military strategist. His book On War is still widely read and referred to. Some consider him the greatest military strategist of all time.
DeForrest, Mark Edward. "Just War Theory and the Recent Airstrikes against Iraq."
Department of State. "Patterns of Global Terrorism." Annual reports for 1995 - 2000.
Fellowship of Reconciliation. A long-established organization committed to non-violence, world justice, and peace. Includes classic writings on non-violence by, e.g., Mohandas K. Gandhi and Thomas Merton.
Geneva Conventions on War. The 1977 Conventions.
Grotius, Hugo. The Laws of War and Peace (in its entirety). This work is arguably the document that establishes the framework of modern just war theory.
Hawk, William. "Images of the Enemy in War." A radio interview in which Hawk discusses the ways opposing sides characterize their opponents. [RealAudio]
Heritage Foundation. Homeland Defense. Lengthy document where the Heritage Foundation spells out the rationale for and nature of homeland defense.
Hitler, Adolph. "War Propaganda." A description of the way countries use propaganda during war time. Instructive reading.
Journalists and War Conference. 10 hours of audio from the conference, held at USF St. Petersburg in February 2007. Speakers include journalists Martin Bell (BBC), Barbara Crossette (NY Times), Corey Flintoff (NPR); media critic, Norman Solomon; academic journalist, Philip Seib, Pentagon spokesperson, Bryan Whitman; policy analyst, Joel Rosenthal; military ethicist, Albert Pierce; and philosopher, Judith Lichtenberg.
Just War Theory. A number of links discussing various aspects of just war theory.
The Laws of War. An extensive collection of major documents on the Laws of War, from the Roman days, until the present. Includes major treatises, as well as all the important international documents, from the Hague Conventions (1898) until the present. Courtesy of the Avalon Project at Yale Law School.
Mosley, Alex. "Just War Theory." Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Joseph Cirincione (Director, Nuclear Proliferation Project, Carnegie Institute for International Peace). "Nuclear Proliferation." A radio interview in which Hawk discusses the ways opposing sides characterize their opponents. [RealAudio]
Theories of Just War. From the "Philosophical Society." Although I don't know this group, this has a number of links to some original sources on the topic.
Twain, Mark. "War Prayer."
United Nations. Charter of the United Nations.. Links to Human Rights documents. UN site's list of documents on Peace and Security.

U.S. and Iraq. Recently declassified documents showing that former Presidents Regan and George Bush told Saddam Hussein that their public condemnation of his use of weapons of mass destruction were just for public consumption, and in now way hindered the U.S.'s relationship with him.

4/8/2015