The Ideology of American Empire, by Claes Ryn

Claes Ryn is a professor of politics at the Catholic University of America and chairman of National Humanities Institute.

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"There are similarities between the advocates of the ideology of American empire and the ideologues who inspired and led the French Revolution o f 1789. The Jacobins, too, claimed to represent universal principles... the dominant Jacobins also wanted greater economic freedom. They thought of themselves as fighting on the side of good against evil and called themselves “the virtuous”…the result was protracted war and turbulence in Europe and elsewhere.

Those who embody the Jacobin spirit today in America have explicitly global ambitions. Is is crucial to understand what they believe, for potentially they have the military might of the United States at their complete disposal.”

Já agora, talvez seja bom relembrar as palavras do Catecismo sobre a Guerra Justa:
“The strict conditions for legitimate defense by military force require rigorous consideration. The gravity of such a decision makes it subject to rigorous conditions of moral legitimacy. At one and the same time:

- the damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain;

- all other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective;

- there must be serious prospects of success;

- the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated. The power of modem means of destruction weighs very heavily in evaluating this condition.

These are the traditional elements enumerated in what is called the "just war" doctrine.

The evaluation of these conditions for moral legitimacy belongs to the prudential judgment of those who have responsibility for the common good.”