Just War?

I think that in certain situations war is just.  When a group of people or area is in great destruction because of violence and dictatorship, I think it is other countries' obligation to step in and help the suffering people.  If the countries on the allied powers did not intervene in World War II, I could not even imagine what our world would be like.  For one, there would probably be no Jewish people.  When a group of people are violating another person's life, we should feel obligated to help that person and to fight for what is right and for what we believe in.  I think we could and should move toward more nonviolent resolution to conflict because we could still fight for human rights and for the protection of persecuted people without killing even more people.  I think sometimes being nonviolent is more powerful then killing a bunch of people.  When the world sees the United States being nonviolent in an issue where they think violence would be best, but we are still fighting for what is right , they are more likely to be taken back by our actions of nonviolence because that shows great strength in people.  In an ideal world nonviolent resolution to conflict would work, but because our world is composed of some many different kinds of people it would be close to impossible to sway everyone to be nonviolent.  Moving towards nonviolent ways to solve tragic issues would be moving toward a culture of life.  We would being respecting all forms of life even the people who have wronged which for some people is and would be hard to do.  Since being completely nonviolent in military affairs would be hard, we can start with abortion and the death penalty.  If we got people to start thinking about all forms of life and show a consistency of life ethics we could maybe in time change the way people think about life and human rights and then get them thinking about military violence.  We can begin to change the way we think and urge the people we love to think about all forms of life and human rights and maybe we can start a chain reaction! Lets see how far the wave can reach!