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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 compares 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 choice. 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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The Rwandan Genocide was a horrible event. It was the mass murder of an estimated 800000 Tutsi people by the Hutus. “The Eisenhower Doctrine states ‘a country can request economic assistance and/or US military aggressions if it were being threatened.’” (Rwanda Task II) The fact that the US didn’t go in to help the Tutsi’s was a crime. We had a very just cause to go in and help these people but we didn’t. “The US was unwilling to risk lives by sending military personnel to stop the genocide.” (Task I) The horrible thing about that is that the Hutus were fighting with knives. We wouldn’t have even needed to shoot any of our weapons and they would have stepped down.

In Somalia War Lords were attacking and starving innocent people. “The United States stepped in to help restore peace and protect the lives of innocent Somalis.” (Task II) It was a war of pacification it was to keep peace in Somalia and save innocent lives. The Clinton Doctrine states, “If someone comes after innocent live we can step in to stop it.” (Task II) We stepped in to protect these innocent lives and stop the massacre; we had every right to be there.

====We entered China in 1900 because of Manifest Destiny. We wanted to spread our ideas and the Boxers didn’t want to accept the fact that they were being westernalized. “The Boxers were hostile toward the ruling Manchu Qing dynasty and they targeted christians, missionaries, and foreigners.” (Task I) We came to protect the citizens of China once the uprising started. “It was a very dangerous to be an outsider in China, the Boxers would stop at nothing to get rid of all the Western influence in China.” (Task I) The fact that The Boxers didn’t want any Western ideas and were harming innocent people was the reason we entered. It was not judt that the Boxers were treating people this way.====

====Unfortunately the most just cause for any war was the Rwandan Genocide. It was a crime that the US made no attempt to stop the acts of the Hutus. We had every right to be in Rwanda but we weren’t. Innocent civilians were getting killed by the 1000s. We honestly had no right //not// to be there. We could have done some to stop this but we didn’t.====


 * RUBRIC: A quality essay will **
 * • **** Explain why you selected the two jus ad bellum and the two jus in bello the criteria, **** not done **
 * •Use the __four__ criteria to analyze why the three small wars are "just wars", **** criteria not used to analyze the wars **
 * •Support your analysis of each war with evidence from the Small Wars Wiki, **** evidence not used to support your claims **
 * •Rank the three small wars and explain why one war is more just than the other two, **** not done **
 * •Explain why the __second__ choice fell short compared to the __first__ choice but is more just than the __third__ choice, **** listed, no comparison offered **
 * •Organize you writing in ** **extended power paragraphs****,** ** progressing toward competency **
 * •Identify the source and establish its ** **credibility** **with an appositive phrase,** ** attempted without identifying source **
 * •Cite evidence __internally__ and in a Works Cited. **** not done **