I'm curious about your tag line. He keeps back his sword from shedding blood. Ok, I understand about Jesus saying that he who lives by the sword also dies by the sword, but I realize that that statement can be held absolutely valid in a logical system discovered by anyone. Even a person who does not know Christ may be able to understand the third law of heat transfer, although Newton himself was certainly a Bible scholar. Would you like to tell me where you are with Just War theory, I'm interested in it? To the best of my knowledge, it was pioneered by Augustine, but I doubt that Aristotle, who predated hm in Greece, would have disagreed.