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Show We Fight In Self-Defense The truth' may not always be Ahat we .want to hear but it is just as well to stick to it as closely as possible. Jiust at this time there are i.-nany people telling Americans why J..ey are in this war and LUe general burdLn of their song u .hat we are in it to save civilization civ-ilization and make permanent a a'-i.mocratic way of life. To an extent this may toe true, because a victory by our 'side would preserve our civilization and our way of life. Nevertheless, Neverthe-less, the United States is in the present conflic, deeipite sjieniu-jus sjieniu-jus ar.d almost cowardly elilforts .0 stay out of it, iolely 'because Japan a.tacked u 'and Germiany and I.aly declared war upon us. Na.v tha w, are involved, we .v .11 s-e it llnrough to U.va eir.d a. .a, a.. Lime, Ae are justifying uur beli.gerency by 'proclaiming various goals, none of which Atre important emouglhi to persuade per-suade us lo go to toe 'aid of Poland, China, Great Britain or other handnpressed nations. Wlhile such slogans may be valuable for line purpose of si.irring up .war morale 'they imay prove dangerous after the struggle strug-gle is concluded. If we are Lighting to save free peoples from aggression, it Iwill ibe Father Fath-er Ihard to explaini why we did 'not help ithe Belgians and the Dutch, not to mention tlhe Norwegians Nor-wegians and the French, ini tlhe helpless hours of their peril. If we are now iwarring for a free world, ,taere all peoples will be the masters of their fate and enjoy equally the material blessings of life, we have a long struggle lalheiad of us, with considerable con-siderable reformation necessary in the United States, .where our people have always ibragged about a higher standard of living liv-ing and boasted about their possessions-. Tlhe simple truth is that .we are fighting in self -d elf ense. The I .Mar requires no other justifida-.ion, justifida-.ion, We would be fighting just as Ihard, if we had a monarchy or a cqmmunist republic. We Clave been brutally attacked Iby a combination of rapacious anid greedy enemies; naturally, we sieek to protect our own and siafeguard our future by defeating defeat-ing them. |