Every minute of every day someone is at war somewhere. It has been that way since the beginning of time, and this generation has seen a great deal of it. Whether for more land, religious reasons, or the sheer barbarity of some leaders; our world has never had total peace.
Perhaps it is an idealist way of thinking; proposing that we can strive for world peace someday, but if we don’t, we are destined to destroy not only our beautiful world, but the inhabitants as well.
No soldier wants to go to war; no family wants to be broken up with deployment; no parent or spouse wants to see military personnel at their doorstep bringing news of death, but many times this is the only way to ensure that we retain our freedoms.
Freedoms that we take for granted every day, and most of the world envies. We can’t have freedom and forego the means to keep it – war.
Yes, America has come to the aid of countless situations of human tragedy. We have love and compassion for our fellow human beings and cannot turn our eyes away from those who are ruled with an iron fist even to the point of having their food rationed.
And so we are at the crossroads again with talk of economic sanctions against Russia, which will affect us all in some way. Can America again give of its military to fight other’s battles; or is it in some way our responsibility to fight? Students at the Downtown campus were pretty much in agreement on their responses to the question: “Do you think America should get involved in the Russian/Ukrainian conflict?”

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