The geopolitical climate in the United States is really heating up all of a sudden. We have seen atrocities throughout the world, most recently with an ISIS attack on civilians in Stockholm, and even worse, the use of chemical weapons on the people of Syria by their own government. It is a sad state of affairs. In retaliation, President Trump ordered a bomb attack in Syria on the airport runways where the planes with the chemical weapons embarked. Also, things are getting rough in North Korea, with their dictator threatening to run another nuclear test. So US warships are headed to the Korean Peninsula to ensure “peace in the region.” Lastly, the US dropped a huge bomb in Afghanistan today on an ISIS tunnel network. With all these happenings, it is difficult to discern who is the aggressor and who is the victim. But one point is for sure: The Book of Mormon teaches that war is allowed in defense of your homeland, and we are not to be an aggressor nation that attacks others in their own lands.
Mormon 4:4 And it was because the armies of the Nephites went up unto the Lamanites that they began to be smitten; for were it not for that, the Lamanites could have had no power over them.
LESSON LEARNED: We should defend our homelands to the death, but refrain from attacking others in their homelands.
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