The first article by the senator had a few things that I felt were not correct. He came up with lots of reasons for going to Iraq and how we went for the wrong reasons but he does not mention the reason we went there in the first place, which was to remove the dictator Saddam Hussein from power. Throughout the editorial the senator also seems to somewhat villainies the U.S. I don’t believe a U.S. senator should make his country that he serves look bad even though others feel that it is ok to do so. Lastly, he wants to get across the message that the U.S. is at war with Muslims and not Iraq, which I believe is completely untrue.
Revisionism is one of the three main approaches to the Cold War and its origins and significance of events. It originated in mid-sixties, while USA was involved in the Vietnam War. The revisionist approach puts blame for the cold War on the USA and its policies towards USSR. It also proposes the view that it was President Truman’s actions that caused the conflict. Revisionism contradicts the proposals of the traditionalism and its blame of the Soviet Union.
Rather problems in the past should be analyzed why they were solved one way and not the other. If the human race hopes to survive against itself it must not consistently look on the past’s morality or moral issues. Morality should only concern the present and the future, the two time periods which are still in fact malleable. Man must accept that the past cannot be changed, and instead study the actions taken, why it was taken, and consider all other possibilities so one can relate it to today’s situations. If one dwells on the “what-ifs” of the past, one would be looking backwards too often to make any progress
This was as Hall rightly says in C, a “Rude awakening to the realities of the war that prompted a re-evaluation of the nation’s commitment.” This is similar to Source A in the way that it refuses to focus on the statistics of the offensive, but look at the consequences of the assault, with the privilege of hindsight. This is what defines this source, what makes it right, that it does not take into account solitary and meaningless numbers but looks at the opinion of the people affected, be it in the public or government officials. It clearly presents the Tet for what it was, a larger reverse for the USA. It contradicts D as well, but C is right, the Americans had been exposed and this decreased the credibility of themselves, the South Vietnamese government and made people question the capitalist system. General Giap sums it up best when he states
Kederis !1 Robert Kederis Mr. Batson AP US History 12 August 2013 Analysis of the book “The Disuniting of America” ! In his book, The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society, the author, Pulitzer Prize winning historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. asserts that our world has entered what he calls a "dangerous era of ethnic and racial animosity". He portends that this renewed multiculturalism in the United States has the potential to tear apart our nation. He further submits that America, with its unique history of successful assimilation of so many cultures into one united body, should provide the example for the rest of the world as to how to hold ethnically diverse populations together. Mr. Schlesinger believes that "ethnicity
Some say they wish we didn’t fight but sometimes you have to. America is stupid when it comes to symbols, landmarks, and disasters in general. There continues to be growing conflict around the world. The threat remains and the federal government has neither a calibrated enough focus or organizational structure to maximize its ability to keep the country safe from terrorist attacks. After 9/11 the United States changed as far as security.
However, I appreciated the book’s objective as well as, a political statement regarding some realities that seemed stark and may threaten, or undermine, the economics of wellbeing, national security, as well as, the society unless they are addressed in a more effective manner. In his book, Peterson mentions Margaret Thatcher who says that it may be easy for the politicians to opt for the current gratification while they make other people pay the price for the future. However, that does not really change the reality that there is a price, since the price has a potential of being truly terrible. I do agree that the prospects of twin deficits, as mentioned by Peterson, have had some effect on the confidence, easiness, as well as on consumer and business behavior; although the effects have not yet been felt on the interest rates. The main reason for this is that the private demand for the investment capital is very weak.
‘HHMM’, Hollywood, Harvard, McDonald’s, and Microsoft, were selling not only their products but also America's culture and values, the secrets of its success, to the rest of the world.' However, employing only hard power or only soft power in a given situation will usually prove inadequate. Nye utilizes the example of terrorism, arguing simply utilizing soft power resources to change the hearts and minds of the Taliban government would be ineffective and requires a hard power component. Nevertheless, in the Middle East, in the eyes of Islamic fundamentalists, the openness of Western culture is repulsive, which we have a term for it ‘anti-Americanism’. As a result, Joseph Nye, suggests that the most effective strategies in foreign policy today require a mix of hard and soft power resources, the ‘smart power’.
These are two ideas that turned to war and could have been solved without force. These wars are unnecessary and need to be prevented and or stopped to make the world a better place and it would also make peace again. Peace is the thing we need to shoot for but many need to understand the reason why. Then again these wars are unwinnable because a conclusion will not be reached no matter how hard we try. The only way we can stop it is by being smart about our future decisions and hope to god that whatever decisions get made don’t ruin our country’s fate
Therefore, impending research concerning miscarriages of justice, must stop regurgitating the same studies that have been undertaken previously, because, although some studies have lead to new legislation or policies, e.g. PACE Code D and the PEACE approach, that have reduced some causes of miscarriage of justice, e.g. tape recording interviews, this is still not sufficient. The significant research has come to an 'intellectual dead end', and, as suggested, groups of criminologists, psychologists and sociologists need to collaborate and focus on answering Leo's (2005) question of 'how and why factors, either singly or in coordination, within the criminal justice system, produce accurate or inaccurate decisions or results at various stages of the criminal process?'. It is essential that researchers begin to search out the root problems in order to conclude the predicament that is a miscarriage of