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So often we see the world become preoccupied with a single cause or event. Today’s headlines are Iraq and Madeleine, as if there were no other conflicts or missing children in the world. This is not to belittle the tragedies in Iraq, or the heart-break of a missing child. We must remember though, wars are being waged all over the world, children are being abducted everywhere. Saddam Hussein killed 2 million people long before the U.S. ever entered into a war to remove him from his dictatorship. We cannot allow a single cause célèbre to divert our attention away from protecting our future from harm.

While war is endemic to the human condition, it must and can be stopped. As the people of Earth, we cannot continue infecting our future with war. So once again I find myself demanding – if nothing else — do it for the children. Save them from death. Save them from starvation. Save them from the loss of clean drinking water. Save them from food-borne bacteria. Save them from landmines. Save them from the orphanages of the world. Save them from unnecessary danger. Save them from perversion. Save them from a past filled with hatred.

Do it for their future.

~ Sara Coslett