Flashes of Insight

Iran

  • When the bombs fall on other people’s children

    There is a bitter irony that demands to be spoken plainly. At home, America cannot stop bullets from entering schools. Abroad, it helps deliver death from the sky and asks the world to call it order. When outrage is calibrated by passport, when foreign children dissolve into geopolitical footnotes while our own are memorialised by…

    When the bombs fall on other people’s children

  • Was it moral to bomb Iran?

    Aquinas and Augustine once offered frameworks to distinguish justified conflict from sin. Today, those teachings face new scrutiny as leaders weigh morality against national security in acts like the U.S.-Israel strike on Iran.

    Was it moral to bomb Iran?

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