Air Force Poster after Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor, Providence & American Air Power

on December 7, 2015

Some religious voices cavalierly dismiss any serious Christian moral reflection on military force by asking: Whom would Jesus bomb? Seventy-four years ago, the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor prompted the U.S. to launch an unprecedented build-up of air power that has ensured U.S. air supremacy ever since, with important moral implications, about which I write in The Stream here.

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