{"id":12829,"date":"2009-05-16T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bishop_george_packard_just_war_document_well_meaning_but_unsatisfying\/"},"modified":"2009-05-16T18:00:08","modified_gmt":"2009-05-16T18:00:08","slug":"bishop_george_packard_just_war_document_well_meaning_but_unsatisfying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12829","title":{"rendered":"Bishop George Packard: &#39;Just war&#39; document well-meaning but unsatisfying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s an example where it could have helped with the Just War document. One of our senior chaplains argued that the whole concept of Just War should be replaced and did graduate study on it. Another chaplain in a major paper specifically warned about proportionality and the safety of non-combatants. He wrote, &#8220;We increase the lethality of our weaponry and thereby the safety of our soldiers on the one hand; non-combatants are left to fend for themselves on the other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The battle area has become more and more toxic yet the bishops\u2019  report addressed the enormity of this development with a simplistic statement like, &#8220;More care with air strikes may require pilots to fly lower, exposing them to greater danger of being shot down.&#8221; Constructing such thoughts without the expertise of experience speaks for itself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalchurch.org\/80050_107236_ENG_HTM.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s an example where it could have helped with the Just War document. One of our senior chaplains argued that the whole concept of Just War should be replaced and did graduate study on it. Another chaplain in a major<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12829\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,40,66,168,106,372,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-military-armed-forces","category-tec-bishops","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}