Is he right?

>TUCKER: I guess the question is if you are willing to kill non-combatants who committed no crime if you're willing to murder the innocent, then in what sense are you better than the people you are fighting?
>REES-MOGG: Well, that once a war is engaged with— the whole point of what I'm talking about to go back to the opening part of your question. We'll come back to it because it's to avoid war and you avoid war by being strong. Once you're in war, you are justified in winning the war.
>TUCKER: So you can behave like an animal once the war starts?
>REES-MOGG: If the risk to you is sufficient, you can use nuclear weapons. I think that is morally justifiable.

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