IIPM Editorial : The FBI head Robert S. Mueller III told editors and reporters...

Eight months later, FBI head Robert S. Mueller III told editors and reporters at The Washington Post that after what must have been the most intense manhunt in history, “We think the masterminds of the Sept. 11 attacks were in Afghanistan, high in the al-Qaida leadership. Plotters and others – the principals – came together in Germany and perhaps elsewhere.” What was still unclear in June 2002 could not have been known definitively the preceding October, though few doubted at once that it was true. Nor did I, for what it’s worth, but surmise and evidence are two different things. At least, it seems fair to say that the circumstances raise a question about whether bombing Afghans was a transparent example of “just war.” Walzer’s arguments are directed to unnamed targets – for example, campus opponents who are “pacifists.”

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