Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drafted to fight a war against Libya, I would. This doesn't mean I think the nation should go to war with this outlaw state, it shouldn't. Nor do I think my decision is making some Pentagon bureaucrat sleep easy tonight...
This personal level of choice by those who acually fight is a recent progression in our democracy, left perhaps by the Vietnam war, although some would argue it existed long before that conflict. The personal level of war should not be taken for granted and then forgotten: it must be an integral part of our democracy which is based on natural rights. Because war entails such grave actions, failing to consider the reasons for it and responding only to national directives is inhuman. If an individual doesn't ponder his reasons to go to war he loses something...
SOME ACTIVISTS have conducted a drive to collect the signatures of students who pledge not to fight a war against Nicaragua. This drive has had the beneficial effect of drawing attention to the problems of U.S. foreign policy in that region. America should not go to war in that region because other options still exist besides the ultimate step of war. But more important, it is the U.S. which appears to be attempting to provoke war. Because options to war still exist and because the United States is the aggressor, fighting in that region could not be justified...
...provocation so important to the decision whether to fight? War is such a break from even the coldest of cold war diplomacies. Indeed it is so immoral to begin with, that the deed which precipitates a conflict becomes by far the most significant event. Some have blamed the United States for discriminatory economic practices against the Japanese during the 1930's and have said this policy led to W.W. II. But the bombing of Pearl Harbor was such a leap from hardball diplomacy it made the personal decision to fight, let alone the national one, simple...
...aggression may no longer exist. War may come later, after some other airport atrocity, or perhaps Colonel Khadafy will change his ways. The latter seems unlikely. But it is Libya which has made the leap to war, and this is the pivotal fact in my personal decision to fight when the nation deems war is the only option left to check Libyan aggression against our citizens...