Hw 30b: "Citizen Soldiers and Global Warriors:Challenges of Iraq"

The Citizenship Symposium presented last Thursday, spoken by Scott Ritter was titled "Citizen Soldiers and Global Warriors:Challenges of Iraq." Scott Ritter, former UN chief weapons inspector and former marine, discuses the title of the session and talks about how the Constitution comes into play. He said that the constitution is "who we are as citizens of America," and how it represents us as people with our rights and responsibilities. He defines the title of the session very clear by saying a soldier is "Someone who defends citizens. Men and women who proudly represent us as people from foreign and domestic enemies." He defines global warrior as "Men and women who wear the uniform that are deployed throughout the world doing the bidding for the government of the United States." Ritter says that a soldier is someone who defends citizens, but a citizen solider is "someone who can defend the constitution,uniform or not." All of these characterizations deal with the citizenship of Americans and how the Constitution comes into play. Scott Ritter stresses this point when he says "true citizenship is one who can defend the Constitution--solider of democracy."
This citizenship symposium was much different from June Cross's and it was also not my favorite. I felt that John Ritter was very straight forward and opinionated about what he was saying and i didn't agree 100% some of his beliefs on what was going on with the war.