THOSE cocking their rifles right now are also cocking consciences. Bombs and bullets are set in place, armies put on alert, death begins to close in, yet still they are questioning, is there such a thing as a "just war"? And then, a second later, they themselves present the answer: "Yes, there is. That is what our war is."

In February 2002 the Institute for American Values published What We're Fighting for: A Letter from America, a text signed b