<font size="4">I am proposing a mildly radical paradigm shift that milchemes reshus with a non-hositle nieghbor is in itself NOT KOSHER.<br><br>I am reading into the sources the concept that the Reshus is a matter of timing that there is no imminent threat, but an inevitable one over time.
<br><br>Let's use the USA, Aghanistan, Iraq, and Canada as meshholim<br><br></font><ol><li><font size="4">Afghanistan: Assuming that the Taliban were directly responsible for the 9/11 attacks then what Bush did was a milchmest mitzva in retaliating in Afghanistan.
</font></li><li><font size="4">Iraq: Bush's attack in Iraq was against a hostile but "no imminest threat" enemy. That IMHO is the correct paradigm for a Milchmes Reshus. And you can see even there this is a judgment call - consult Urim v'Tumim etc. There were many reason NOT to atack Iraq, but Bush perceived this an inevitable.
<br></font></li><li><font size="4">Canada: An attack on Canada however, is NOT the kind of Reshus I consider Kosher! Rather, it would simply be for the sake of "manifest destiny" or expansion. Neither case should trigger a Milchmes Reshus. The loss of life is not justifiable.
</font></li></ol><font size="4">The sources in general may or may not support my read, but I do see hints at this</font><ul><li><font size="4"> in the aforementioned Rashi on Humash [on what mihemes reshus is about]</font>
</li><li><font size="4">and Tosafos on Arvis [on what the term Reshus can mean]</font></li></ul><br><br>Kesiva vaChasima Tova<br>Best Wishes for 5768,<br><a href="mailto:RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com">RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com
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kennethgmiller@juno.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:kennethgmiller@juno.com">kennethgmiller@juno.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
R' Richard Wolpoe wrote:<br>> Just re-interpret this to include the case that if you ignore<br>> or refuse to confront a hostile nation then one day you will<br>> need to fight them anyway. and this is still Reshus ...
<br>> Simlarly Milhemet Reshus may be construed as a preemptive war<br>> against a hostile nation that sooner or later will attack.<br><br>If you want to consider a preemptive war as being a Milchemes Reshus, I don't have a problem with that. My problem is that there are other types of Milchemes Reshus too, in which we seem to be attacking a nation which was *not* hostile to us. *Those* are the cases that bother me.
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