Terrorism - Don’t Disgrace the American Flag in a War with Iraq :: Argumentative Persuasive Topics

Dont Disgrace the American Flag in a War with Iraq   Everywhere I go, I ingest American flags. tape-recorded to peoples windows, sewn onto pockets, worn in a band around the arm. quite a little call it the unification of America, the great coming-together of a wounded people, a array of support and of national feeling from every corner of our nation. Patriotism, they call it, and proudly display their red, white, and blue.   And yet I wonder if they know what that flag represents. I read the polls, and I find that the majority of Americans want vengeance, even at the cost of war with many countries. I watch the news, and I see our president preparing our troops to invade Iraq-all the while standing in preceding of the stars-and-stripes, the symbol of our nation. Doesnt he remember what America means?   Everyone talks most the war in terms of our best interests. If we attack Iraq, we incur more(prenominal) anger we create more enemies willing to die to hurt us. If we dont, we advance weak, and more will strike at us, knowing that they can do so without fear of retribution. I leave such questions to the pundits. They ar great considerations, no doubt. But they are not American considerations.   America isnt some our best interests. Its about the forfeiture of practicality to principle, of self-interest to the soul. Long ago, we decided that things interchangeable Freedom and Justice were real, and that they were worth preserving, even when it wasnt easy, or pleasant. We believed so lots in these principles that we set down laws, so that we might never sacrifice Freedom for Security, or Justice for Revenge. And so we protect the Klans right to march, to grouse out hate-slogans and burn crosses in our streets. We forbid racial-profiling, when, allows face it, more crimes are committed by African-Americans than by Caucasians.   And, most painful of all, we protect the rights of criminals. We browse hard to give them fair trials, and grant them appeals, and throw out topic after case for lack of airtight evidence. We insist that it is better to let a hundred guilty men go free, than to imprison a single innocent one. And we do this at the cost of our own security, at the cost of more criminals on the streets. We accept the hurt that their crimes bring us, because we would or else suffer those blows than have innocent blood on our hands.