To each other of course! Yet we seem to be at loggerheads when deciding to actually pay the duty we owe. I bring to your consideration the current situation in Syria. A country that has been under the influence of oppression and cruelty. Yet when the uprising of it's citizens in the face of the overwhelming brutality by it's dictatorial oppressor evidences itself, we stand by and do nothing much more than watch. As if our record of what is happening is the extent of our duty. America, founded upon the ideal of liberty and freedom, is now relegated to watching as others who also fight for those same rights are slaughtered for their convictions. We must remember that if France had not joined in our struggle for overthrowing our oppressors, we would not be "America" as we know it today. For us to wring our hands while bloodshed continues to oppress those who are oppressed is antithetical to not only our political structure, but also to our fundamental human nature to defend the weak and oppressed from tyranny and inhumane degradation. This is a turning point in our grand experiment here in America, do we stand up for the rights we demand for ourselves, when others are dying to achieve them as well? If we do not stand against those that oppress, then we will surely see a diminution of our rights here since they will have been hollow, when their defense has been tested. There will always be those who wish for our society to revert to some form of rule by ego, by not defending the obvious circumstances, directly related to our own founding, we begin the slide down the slippery slope of losing all that we had gained to achieve in equality, fairness, freedom, justice and liberty. Our only defense here in America of our own vision of our democracy, is our willingness to fight for others who wish the same regardless of where the oppression on Earth is happening.
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