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Comparison Essay: How Just Were the U.S.’s Small Wars? The Just War Theory has two parts. Study the Just War handout and select the two most significant criteria for **//jus ad bellum//** and two most significant criteria for **//jus in bello//**. With these criteria in mind, select one war from each of your three tables that best meets these criteria. In the essay, you will analyze, compare and rank these three wars.

Write an essay that comparee.s the three small wars and analyzes how well all three meet the four criteria that you believe are most important. Based on this comparison, select the __"most just"__ of the three wars and explain the reasons for the choic Also, explain why your __second choice__ fell short and were not as just as your __first choice__ but is more just than your __third choice__.

RUBRIC: A quality essay will Explain why you selected **jus ad bellum** and **jus in bello** the criteria, Use the __four__ criteria to analyze why the three small wars are "just wars", Support your analysis of each war with evidence from the Small Wars Wiki, Rank the three small wars and explain why one war is more just than the other two, Explain why the __second__ choice fell short compared to the __first__ choice but is more just than the __third__ choice, Organize you writing in extended power paragraphs, Identify the source and establish its credibility with an appositive phrase, Cite evidence __internally__ and in a Works Cited.

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How Just were the Small Wars?

The reason I choose the criteria, Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello is because they easily point out if a war is just or not. The criteria bases wars on the reasons for going into war and if they were just or not and if the combatants made just decisions in the war. For this essay I’m going to focus on three small wars located in different parts of the world. I’m going to focus on Cambodia, Panama and the Dominican Republic. I’m going to analyze all of them using the Jus ad bellum and Jus in Bello in depth to see wither or not they are just or not. For the Jus ad Bellum criteria I’m going to focus on the United States Probability of success and if we had the right intentions intervening. For the Jus in Bello I’m going to focus on military necessity and distinction.

For my three wars I’m going to analyze them to see if they had the right intentions and a good probability of success. The United States had very god intentions for intervening in Panama during the year 1989. The US had many reasons to go invade Panama, American civilians were endanger living there, drug trafficking was out of control and the countries interests were also endanger. The Panama canal, a great asset to our countries military and trade route was endanger as well. Our probability of winning the small war was very high because Panama was a small not very powerful country that we could take over if necessary, the war didn’t even last one year so our success was inevitable. The US did not have the right intentions to invade the Dominican Republic in 1965. The reason why we invaded the Dominican Republic that “the Dominican Republic could turn into another Cuba”(Jill W/ Ben C). This in my opinion is ridiculous, just because we thought the D.R’s new president Juan Bosch was communist and would corrupt the country. We didn’t even know for sure that the country would turn communist and we invaded. Our probability of success however was very strong on our side. Like Panama the Dominican Republic was a small developing country that couldn’t stand a super power like the United States. The small war in Cambodia in 1975 is debatable on wither we had the right intentions to invade. The reason why we had the right intention was we had the opportunity to get an upper hand on Vietnam during that war. Some people thought the U.S didn’t have right intentions was because the Vietnamese bases we bombed were very close to Cambodian villages. The villages got in the way of our probability of success because we didn’t want to harm them. There was a chance that if we bombed Vietnamese bases we would also affect Cambodian villages.

For my three wars I’m going to analyze them with the Jus in Bello criteria to find out if the combatants made just decisions. I’m going to see if military was actually necessary for the war and whither they put distinction in consideration. For the small war in Cambodia military was obviously necessary because Cambodia was part of a greater war, the cold war. But I don’t think they put distinction in consideration, Vietnamese bases next to Cambodia villages. Innocent Cambodians died because of these bombings and if they died for our sake I don’t think it is a just reason at all. Killing our allies’ citizens is not a good reason to get an upper hand on the Vietnamese war. For the Panama small war we needed military because negations aren’t enough to overthrow a president. Human lives were at stake and Panama citizens were harassing our personal. I think the military should have considered distinction to the lives of Panama citizens but if they are attacking our people than we must act. In the Dominican Republic small war we shouldn’t have sent military personal in. It was unnecessary for us to go in and use our power to stop communism in the Dominican Republic that hasn’t even happened yet. We could have just used our power with politics to resolve, “the problem by having Joaquín Balaguer elected over Juan Bosch” (Jill W. Ben C.). Distinction wasn’t consi dered at all during this small war because of 6,000 citizens died. The US shouldn’t have killed innocent people just because the citizens didn’t like what we were doing.

If I were to rank my three wars in order to be the most just to the least it would be that Panama would be the most just with Cambodia following closely behind and The Dominican Republic the least just. The reason why I choose that Panama was the most just was because we had the right intentions on going to war with them. WE were protecting our national interests and our civilians, living in Panama. WE also put a stop to the illegal drug trafficking by taking out their president. The reason why Cambodia was just behind Panama was because we killed innocent Cambodians for our own self-gain in the cold war. In my mind killing civilians for your own gain is just insane to think that we even did it. There are many reasons why I put the Dominican Republic as the least just war. First we killed many of civilians just to stop their uprisings. They had just reasons to upraise, I wouldn’t like it if another country tried to take away my president. The US did not have the right intentions for electing a new president for the Dominican Republic because they didn’t even know for sure if he was a communist. These reasons I think justify my decision on rating them this way.

 RUBRIC: A quality essay will

Explain why you selected the two jus ad bellum and the two jus in bello the criteria, reasons for selecting the criteria is not offered

Use the __four__ criteria to analyze why the three small wars are "just wars", criteria is listed rather than analyzed

Support your analysis of each war with evidence from the Small Wars Wiki, evidence not always used or credited to source

Rank the three small wars and explain why one war is more just than the other two, supporting evidence not offered

Explain why the __second__ choice fell short compared to the __first__ choice but is more just than the __third__ choice,

Organize you writing in extended power paragraphs, not all paragraphs are organized this way

Identify the source and establish its credibility with an appositive phrase, not done for all 3 wars; sources not credited

Cite evidence __internally__ and in a Works Cited. many factual statements not credited; no works cited

Please write with an academic voice, not in the first person.