Just war is the lesser evil

On Tuesday the Spanish Congress gave its approval for military intervention in Libya. Lluís Bassets writes in his blog Del Afiler al Elefante that this was the best decision of all the bad decisions that could have been made: "War can be the lesser evil but only when it is a just war. If it is unjust then it can only be the greatest evil. Those who don't want to choose this lesser evil are also making a decision: the greater evil gains the upper hand because of their passivity, their indifference or their cynicism. War is this too: an obligation to make a choice which no one can evade. The greater evil would have been to do nothing. Gaddafi would be shooting and torturing people in Benghazi today, he would have the whole country under his control again and he would go on with the blackmailing which has made him the master of the Mediterranean mafia: using petrol, immigration and terrorism to buy recognition and respectability at the expense of his people, impoverished and brutalised by his dictatorship."

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