February 21, 2003

2 Views on the Ethics of Civilian War Casualties

By DAVID GLENN

MEANS AND ENDS: In late 1998, not for the first or the last time, the Iraqi regime provoked a crisis at the U.N. Security Council by interfering with the work of weapons inspectors.

Commenting in an interview with LA Weekly, the political philosopher Michael Walzer argued that it would be legitimate for the United Nations to use military power to force Saddam Hussein to abandon his anthrax factories. On the other hand, Mr. Walzer, the author of Just and Unjust Wars (Basic Books, 1977),

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