Our universal enemy is evil

To the editor:

What are we fighting against, and what are we fighting for? To reduce it to its simplest terms, there is only one enemy in the world that man has, and that enemy is evil.

Evil plays many roles, assumes many disguises and makes its way into the most unexpected places. It isn't always any easy thing to put your finger on it, because sometimes evil appears so utterly respectable.

Our fight must be against evil and for a world and a way of life that will be free from evil -- the evil that opposes truth, gives one man insufferable conceit in his own superiority and an intolerable assurance of the inferiority of his followers, beckons to indulgence in forbidden things and causes a nation to forget its principles and ideals and disregard the commandments of God.

While there are objectives to be won in well-defined geographic areas, evil is no respecter of geography or boundaries. It recognizes no neutrality. Evil is a cunning strategist. If it is driven to cover by frontal attack, it moves in from the flank and the rear and is a master at infiltration.

It doesn't matter who or what would destroy us or our freedom. If it would destroy us, it represents evil and is, therefore, our enemy.

What are we fighting for? We are fighting for the destruction of evil wherever we find it, and we must no more tolerate it among ourselves than we do among our enemies.

ALVIN KAMP, Jackson