Just wars vs unjust wars implies just combatants vs unjust combatants and contradicts the principle of the equality of combatants and the equal/just treatment of prisoners of war that that implies.
IMO war is a failure of civilisation as evidenced by the loss of human lives which any civilised society purports to protect. So for that reason , war is outside the ambit of morality in civilised societies such as Aus where even capital punishment has been abolished.
I realise that there are important moral arguments to be made based on differing beliefs as outlined below, but when it comes to the crunch, IMO war does more damage than good and on that fundamental level, civilised negotiations are preferable to war as a means of resolving conflict .....otherwise as the ancient Greeks realised.....war is tragedy on a grand scale.
