In the 1987 book One Nation Under God, Christian Reconstructionist Rus Walton offered a robust defense of preventive war. Suppose a “thug,” a barbarian, a “depraved maniac,” threatened your wife or daughter. “What would you do? When would you move to protect her? Before the attacker made his advance? . . . When he began ripping the clothes from her body?” Yes, Jesus might have instructed his followers to love their enemies, but not His enemies.
