s finally on the morality of the proposed action. This moral tradition, say the authors,
provides us with categories for moral reflection about war, peace, and statecraft; it also gives us tools to evaluate the contents of those categories: notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice in international affairs; of the justified use of force within the purposes of statecraft, including as an ultimate goal the end of peace; and of limits on justified use of force (5).
The authors also give credit to Christian theory in the development of just war doctrine. They refer to the work of Paul Ramsey in this area, and Ramsey's argument that the "moral duty of love of neighbor" inevitably leads to the obligation to use force if necessary "to protect the neighbor who is being unjustly attacked." However, "love also imposes limits on such force, re
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