David French
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3,314 appearances
17 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 19 Sep
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They began to enter into a bunch of treaties requiring kinds of humane treatment in war.
So the basic desire was to create something called the war, that to make World War I the war to end all wars.
In other words, that was so horrific, we're never going to do it again.
And when they began to construct laws of war, they weren't building from a blank, they weren't painting on a blank canvas.
What they essentially did was took Catholic just war doctrine,
and began to incorporate it into international law.
Now, we all know that it didn't work.
Initially, World War I was not the war to end all wars.
One of the reasons why these international institutions didn't work was that the United States didn't participate.
The most powerful economy in the world, the theoretically potentially most powerful military in the world did not participate.
And so...
When Hitler arose, there was no real great power that had the willingness and capacity to resist him.
So he went through it all again, except maybe by some estimates three times worse.
There are some guesses as many as say 60 million people died.
So then we said, again, let's not do that again.
And this time the United States stuck with a plan.
And we passed the UN, we created the UN, we ratified the UN Charter, and the UN Charter does exactly what was attempted after World War I, and that was to ban aggressive warfare.
It was rooted in just war doctrine.
So in other words, if you're, interestingly enough, in a very religiously diverse world and an increasingly secular West, when you're hearing the Pope talk about
The war, what you're in essence is hearing a descendant of a founding father talking about the Constitution in an interesting way.
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