Published: March 2008
What does continued American action—reconstruction or withdrawal—mean for our moral responsibility to a country that we invaded and to which we introduced radical change?” This question was posed to a panel composed of a historian, a philosopher, and an ethicist in a program sponsored by the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life on March 18 in Cushing 101. Moderated by professor of political science Alan Wolfe (from left), the other speakers were Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and also the Archdiocese of Boston’s secretary for social services; Andrew Bacevich, professor of history and international relations at Boston University; and the philosophy department’s Paul McNellis, SJ, who was an infantry officer and journalist in Vietnam as the war there was ending in the 1970s.