Originally Posted by
Just This Once...
Jus ad bellum
Jus in bello.
It will be legal, it will be just, it will be proportionate, it will only be used to advance the stated aim.
As with all conflicts, it will never be 'right'. Taking lives should always be uncomfortable - if you think what you are doing is 'right' then in truth you have it all wrong.
if it's all those things, then there's no problem about debating it in public then.
Im afraid I simply don't trust our government(s) (of any colour) to use force on behalf of the country without parliamentary oversight - which doesn't exist.
And theres a hell of a difference between a no-notice hostage rescue scenario and a years long attribution of forces to "fight" an "enemy"...