neo-Conned!
Just War Principles: A Condemnation of War in Iraq
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The editors of Neo-CONNED! have assembled an all-star lineup of journalists, academics, and commentators who bring to bear the wisdom of Catholic tradition and the prudence, realism, and common sense of authentic patriotism on the tragic and immoral 21st-century war against Iraq. The vocal apologetic of neoconservative Catholics for war in Iraq, along with the muted response of the American Hierarchy, kept anti-war Catholics on the defensive in the months leading up to the war, and caused a spectacle of Catholic powerlessness in the face of an aggressive, self-proclaimed “Christian” presidency. The thirty-one essays and interviews in Neo-CONNED! succeed in righting that wrong, setting forth in clear and persuasive terms the Catholic and genuinely patriotic objection to war in Iraq, based upon both the venerable just-war tradition and solid political analysis. They also refute the most pernicious myths about religion, war, and Christian citizenship, arguing from Catholic doctrine and solid logic that God, the Church, and conscience take precedence over the government in determining both the justice of a war and morally acceptable courses of action for Christians who are called upon to support it. The essays and interviews in Neo-CONNED! dissect the moral and religious aspects of the war in Iraq with unparalleled precision and honesty, while the appendices explain just-war doctrine and conscientious objection in absolutely orthodox terms. Together they represent the best in contemporary moral and political analysis.
What the Critics are Saying
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Foreword —Bishop Hilarion Capucci |
About the Author(s)
Michael Gilchrist
Michael Gilchrist is the editor of the Australian religious monthly AD2000.
Michael Hennessey
Michael Hennessy received his M.A. in Modern History from Oriel College, Oxford. A student of Parliamentary history and politics, he now serves as Private Secretary to the Principal Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons.
Paul Gottfried, Ph.D.
Dr. Gottfried is the Horace E. Raffensperger Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College and a member of the executive board of the Historical Society. He is also contributing editor for Chronicles and Telos, and is editor-in-chief of This World. In addition to being an Adjunct Scholar at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Gottfried was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1984 and was recognized by Who’s Who in the World in 2000. He is author of a long list of papers, articles, reviews, and publications, among the most recent of which are The Strange Death of European Marxism and Conservatism in America: Making Sense of the American Right.
Peter Chojnowski, Ph.D.
Dr. Peter E. Chojnowski has degrees in political science and philosophy from Christendom College, Va., and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Fordham University. He specializes in the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas and Catholic Social Thought and has written over 100 articles and reviews on Catholic topics. He currently teaches at Gonzaga University and Immaculate Conception Academy. He lives with his wife and six children on a three-acre farm in Washington State.
Rep. Ron Paul
Congressman Ron Paul was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Gettysburg College and the Duke University School of Medicine, before proudly serving as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force during the 1960s. He and his wife Carol moved to Texas in 1968, where he began his medical practice in Brazoria County.
While serving in Congress during the late 1970s and early 1980s, Dr. Paul’s limited-government ideals were not popular in Washington. He served on the House Banking committee, where he was a strong advocate for sound monetary policy and an outspoken critic of the Federal Reserve’s inflationary measures. In 1984, he voluntarily relinquished his House seat and returned to his medical practice. Dr. Paul returned to Congress in 1997 to represent the 14th Congressional district of Texas. He serves on the House Financial Services Committee, the International Relations committee, and the Joint Economic Committee. On the Financial Services Committee, Rep. Paul serves as the vice-chairman of the Oversight and Investigations subcommittee.
Dr. Paul is the author of several books, including Challenge to Liberty, The Case for Gold, and A Republic, If You Can Keep It. He has been a distinguished counselor to the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and is widely quoted by scholars and writers in the fields of monetary policy, banking, and political economy. He has received many awards and honors during his career in Congress, from organizations such as the National Taxpayers Union, Citizens Against Government Waste, the Council for a Competitive Economy, Young Americans for Freedom, and countless others.
Stephen Sniegoski, Ph.D.
Dr. Sniegoski completed his doctorate in American history, with a focus on American foreign policy, at the University of Maryland in 1977. He has had articles published in The World & I, Modern Age, Current Concerns, Zeit-Fragen, Telos, The Occidental Quarterly, Arab News, The Last Ditch, and other publications dealing with such subjects as communism, political philosophy, World War II,and the American war on Iraq. His focus on the neoconservative involvement in the American foreign policy antedated September 11, and his first major work on the subject, “The War on Iraq: Conceived in Israel,” was posted on “The Last Ditch” on February 10, 2003, more than a month before the American attack. He contributed the article “Neoconservatives, Israel, and 9/11: The Origins of the U.S. War on Iraq” to the Neo-CONNED! Again anthology published by IHS Press in 2005. Sniegoski is married with two adult children.
Thomas Naylor, Ph.D.
Dr. Naylor is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Duke University where he taught economics, management science, and computer science for 30 years. He also taught at Middlebury College and acted as an international management consultant, serving governments and major corporations in over 30 countries. His articles have been published in such journals as The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, the Nation, and Business Week. Downsizing the U.S. A. and Affluenza are the most recent of his 29 books. With Kirkpatrick Sale, Dr. Naylor co-directs the Middlebury Institute for the study of separatism, secession, and self-determination.
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Bp. Hilarion Capucci is a Greek-Melkite Catholic priest and bishop who was ordained in 1947 and consecrated a bishop in 1965. He served as the Greek-Melkite Patriarchal Vicar of Jerusalem (1965–1974) and Apostolic Visitor of the Greek-Melkites of Western Europe. He was Bishop of Caesarea, Palestine, in exile, until his retirement in 1999. His ministry in later years was extended particularly to Palestinians of the European diaspora, and he has long been an advocate and activist for justice for the Palestinian people of the Holy Land.
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George A. Lopez, Ph.D., is Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Lopez's research focuses primarily on the problems of State violence and coercion, and gross violations of human rights. He has been published in a variety of law, human-rights, and scientific journals, and has been editor or contributor to five books on repression and state terror. Lopez has served as advisor to a number of organizations involved in human rights, international affairs education, and peace research.
