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\wilsons war message to congress\ april 2, 1917 gentlemen of the congress: i have called the congress into extraordinary session because there are serious, very serious, choices of policy to be made, and made immediately, which it was neither right nor constitutionally permissible that i should assume the responsibility of making. on the 3rd of february last i officially laid before you the extraordinary announcement of the imperial german government that on and after the 1st day of february it was its purpose to put aside all restraints of law or of humanity and use its submarines to sink every vessel that sought to approach either the ports of great britain and ireland or the western coasts of europe or any of the ports controlled by the enemies of germany within the mediterranean.... it is a war against all nations. american ships have been sunk, american lives taken, in ways which it has stirred us very deeply to learn of, but the ships and people of other neutral and friendly nations have been sunk and overwhelmed in the waters in the same way. there has been no discrimination. the challenge is to all mankind. each nation must decide for itself how it will meet it. the choice we make for ourselves must be made with a moderation of counsel and a temperateness /cr - vocab - 1 of judgment befitting our character and our motives as a nation. we must put excited feeling away. our motive will not be revenge or the victorious assertion of the physical might of the nation, but only the vindication of right, of human right, of which we are only a single champion.... with a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical character of the step i am taking and of the grave responsibilities which it involves, but in unhesitating obedience to what i deem my constitutional duty, i advise that the congress declare the recent course of the imperial german government to be in fact nothing less than war against the government and people of the united states, that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it, and that it take immediate steps not only to put the country in a more thorough state of defense but also to exert all its power and employ all its resources to bring read the paragraph from \wilsons war message to congress.\ neutrality is no longer feasible or desirable where the peace of the world is involved and the freedom of its peoples, and the menace to that peace and freedom lies in the existence of autocratic governments backed by organized force which is controlled wholly by their will, not by the will of their people. we have seen the last of neutrality in such circumstances. which statement best describes the main idea of the paragraph? we have a responsibility to remain neutral and uphold the principles of freedom. the country cannot remain neutral because it is no longer the will of the people. our country can no longer refuse involvement because it cannot allow peace and freedom to be at risk. the peace of the world is based on the ability to remain neutral in the fight for freedom.

Explanation:

The paragraph emphasizes that neutrality is no longer feasible when world peace and people's freedom are at stake due to autocratic governments. It implies the U.S. must act to safeguard peace and freedom, not just for itself but as a champion of human right. The key idea is about the necessity to abandon neutrality to protect peace and freedom.

Answer:

Our country can no longer refuse involvement because it cannot allow peace and freedom to be at risk.