War & Morality

By Judge A. Napolitano

In a liberal democracy, the government can only morally do what the governed have affirmatively authorized it to do, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. This is not the case with Trump’s war on Iran.

"War is the most horrific series of events upon which any government can engage. It is systematic, industrialized, indiscriminate killing. It kills innocent adults and little girls. It often ruins the post-war lives of the killers. It is young men violently fighting old men’s power games. It is the health of the state.

The war President Donald Trump is waging against the people and the government of Iran is immoral, unconstitutional and unlawful. Yet, because Congress is not doing its job, there appears to be no relief in sight until Trump finds a face-saving way to erase his grave mistake from the public’s long memory.

An act of a person or a government is moral when it conforms to a universal set of principles designed to induce good over evil and justice over injustice. These principles are discoverable by all unimpaired adults exercising reason. Adults should comply with them. Children often know them.

To address this, we start with the primacy of the individual over the state. The individual is morally superior to the state because all persons have natural rights, consciences and free wills; and because in the U.S., “We the people” created the state. We are, of course, free to obey our consciences or to violate them; free to respect the natural rights of others or to transgress them.

When we transgress the natural rights of others, our behavior — whether lawful or unlawful — is immoral. When laws enforce natural rights, laws are valid and moral. When laws themselves transgress natural rights — by, for example, punishing speech or seizing property or restraining free movement or invading personal privacy — the laws themselves are immoral.

The government — which is an artificial creation based on a monopoly of force in a defined geographical area — does not have a conscience or a free will. In a liberal democracy, the government can only morally do what the governed have affirmatively authorized it to do.

Thomas Jefferson, writing in the Declaration of Independence, recognized that the government derives its “just Powers from the Consent of the Governed.” From this it follows that if the government exercises powers to which the governed have not consented, then its powers are unjust and their exercise is immoral."

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https://consortiumnews.com/2026/03/27/war-morality/

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Meowatollah vs the Zionist squid

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As the US is dragged into another foreign war, it's worth knowing about the man who forced us into it. Watch the film so revealing that it's banned in Israel. The Bibi Files streaming now on TCN.

https://tuckercarlson.com/watchthebibifiles

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It's not just that the Iran war is already lost, it's that it is MEANT to be lost so badly and at such great cost to the masses that the whole strategy is that the masses are themselves meant to be cornered into demanding a financial Great Reset.

This is different to the facile and crude statements such as "Iran [or Russia] is [/are] on the same side of the Globalists" etc.

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t.me/robinmg/45914

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🚨 USS Gerald R. Ford ‘out of action’ — ex-Indian general

The Iran war is effectively over for the damaged USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, retired Indian Major General Gagan Deep Bakshi said.

🪖 The warship is “out of the combat area” and will soon head back to the US, he added — meaning the carrier’s 70 deck-based fighter jets are effectively sidelined.

👉 At least 600 sailors were earlier relocated after a fire broke out in a laundry area of the $13 billion carrier. The blaze was not combat-related, according to US officials.

👍 US-Israel-Iran war | @geopolitics_prime

A "fire" in the laundry room. 😁

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"The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation."

GEORGE ORWELL, 1984

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