[Avodah] Why is Milchemes Reshus allowed?

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 12:12:16PM +0000, kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:
: Even in a case where, Rachmana Litzlan, our countrymen are dying of
: starvation, and that could be remedied by attacking another country,
: I can't see any justification in killing those foreigners unless they
: are actually responsible for our starvation. Pikuach nefesh can justify
: stealing their food, but not killing their people.

Is this so? Even an ubar can be a rodeif.

I also don't know if the country needs to be at the point of having many
people starving to death before the economy costs more lives than would
war.

Tir'u baTov!
-mi