The best we can do is to continue to inform ourselves about the issues and make the best decisions we can from our perspective, realizing that our perspective is always incomplete. The time may come when we feel this war is wrong, and be led to protest against it. Meanwhile, we can respond with compassion and love to the growing numbers of refugees fleeing the conflict and persecution. Some estimate as many as 800,000 have left or will leave before it is over. If we have waged this war to provide justice, surely it has eluded us.
Every lawyer knows how elusive justice is, and that it often competes with other values.
We have a neighbor who is a lawyer. He has a beautiful golden retriever. The lawyer is often frustrated at work, because he cannot get any justice there. Last month, at a board meeting, I sat next to a Black person. That week, the sentence of capital punishment had been handed down for the white man who dragged a black man to death behind a pick-up truck in Jasper, Texas.