In order to be just, a war must have (among other things) a just goal and must be fought according to just and prorportionate means.  What are the goals for staying in Iraq and is the death and destruction that our presence is likely to entail proportionate to those goals?  This is not a trick question.  

Eduardo M. Peñalver is the Allan R. Tessler Dean of the Cornell Law School. The views expressed in the piece are his own, and should not be attributed to Cornell University or Cornell Law School.

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