I am a pacifist and a conscientious objector from the Vietnam War era.
However, I now endorse international military action to destroy the so-called Islamic State. First, I do not see how repeated terrorist assaults such as this one yesterday on Paris can be prevented unless ISIS is determinedly crushed. Second, the crisis of migration from Syria is intolerable. It threatens to disrupt the peace of the world and is an inhumanity that is unbearable to witness.
We have reached the point, I believe, that the nations of the world, under the United Nations, must intervene with coordinated and deliberate purpose. This shall mean the invasion of Syria. It shall mean a forcible pacification of that region.
This is something new to the world--that we recognize that collapsed societies are a global issue. We are, in the modern era, no longer islands to our selves.
I am a pacifist and a conscientious objector from the Vietnam War era.
However, I now endorse international military action to destroy the so-called Islamic State. First, I do not see how repeated terrorist assaults such as this one yesterday on Paris can be prevented unless ISIS is determinedly crushed. Second, the crisis of migration from Syria is intolerable. It threatens to disrupt the peace of the world and is an inhumanity that is unbearable to witness.
We have reached the point, I believe, that the nations of the world, under the United Nations, must intervene with coordinated and deliberate purpose. This shall mean the invasion of Syria. It shall mean a forcible pacification of that region.
This is something new to the world--that we recognize that collapsed societies are a global issue. We are, in the modern era, no longer islands to our selves.