David French
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 19 Sep
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He is the heir to the intellectual tradition that created the legal system that our entire international system is based on.
So these debates about just war doctrine are not esoteric debates.
They're exactly like debates around the Federalist Papers, say around the Constitution.
This goes into what do these words mean?
What do these doctrines mean?
And the way I would put it is,
After World War II, we replaced a Clausewitzian worldview, and Clausewitz is the military strategist who described war as the extension of politics by other means.
In essence, war just as an instrument of national policy, and replaced it with the Aquinas view of just war doctrine, that war is a last resort, not a first resort, and permissible only in very limited circumstances.
So I'm not going to claim that all of the law of armed conflict is rooted in Catholic just war doctrine, but you can read the Department of Defense law of war manual and it will tell you, it will tell you that just war doctrine is one of the foundational pillars of the international law of armed conflict.
And so this fight over the Pope,
isn't like just picking a fight with, say, some megachurch preacher in Dallas.
It's picking a fight with the intellectual heir of the entire just war tradition that underpins international law.
Well, they'd be forgiven for thinking that, given how vocal and outspoken, and we just had this 250 rededication service on the National Mall, publicly funded.
But American Christianity is a lot more diverse than white evangelicalism.
So it's very true that 82% of white evangelicals voted for Trump.
It's also true that
Somewhere between 80 and 90% of Black Protestants voted for Harris.
It's also true that the main line split about 50-50.
It's true that the Catholic Church slightly leaned towards Trump over Harris.
But American religion is quite diverse, and it's just that the white evangelical church
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