Arming Ukraine Would Bring War Out Into the Open

To arm or not to arm, that is the question.

With battles raging in eastern Ukraine, it should be abundantly clear that the euro-Atlantic community is involved in the most serious conflict since the end of the Cold War — less bloody, so far, but more dangerous than the Balkan wars. Absent a true breakthrough in the Angela Merkel-Francois Hollande effort to broker peace this week, the United States must decide whether to provide weapons systems to Ukraine.