POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cuban Missile Crisis, Cuban Revolutionary Air And Air Defense Force, Michael Walzer
28 Mar 2016
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Groupthink and the bay of pigs crises & He is part of this long tradiion of scholars. He was criical of people who argued military necessity - meaning they had to violate the law for military reasons. Instead, military necessity can only be apparent ater the fact and even then we cant be sure because its not always clear. If oten varies depending on the perspecive of the observer. There may be alternaives that policy makers don"t pay atenion. The athenians take for granted that their empire deserves to survive, but they don"t invesigate that quesion. In the end, walter argues that the issues of war and peace (whether its going to war, or whether how you ight the war), these are quesions of individual choice as much they are anything. And because they are quesions of choice, leaders are making decision, they need to be guided by moral and ethical consideraions.
