| That is why the just war tradition is a theory of statecraft, not simply a method of casuistry. |
| At the root of all such casuistry is the inability of the comfortable inhabitants of the developed world to realise how bad the worst can be. |
| It has the ring of casuistry, of the often hypocritical moralist who declares unctuously that, while he hates the sin, he loves the sinner. |
| But if casuistry hadn't looked any further than the singularity of such cases, their list would have grown unmanageably. |
| The responses were telling in their casuistry, their amorality, their evasiveness. |
| And he finishes with the sort of depraved casuistry he is always so eager to spot in his opponents. |
