Ending the War on Terror Jose E. Ortiz COM 220 Katrina Beck November 22, 2011 Should we still be in a war that is killing our troops and crippling our economy? Since the War on Terror started in 2001, it has claimed the innocent lives of our brave men and women that protect our beautiful country of the United States of America and fight for our freedom. For example, every time we as Americans watch CNN there is always something at the bottom of the screen saying another soldiers has died in the Iraq and Afghanistan war today. The death toll just keeps rising higher and higher. Even though the troops who die volunteer and fight with pride, the United States should end the war on terror because it is causing damage to the economy and too many troops’ lives have been lost.
A People’s History of the United States: Reflection Chapter 18 The Impossible Victory: Vietnam This chapter summarizes the Vietnam War and focuses mainly on the United States’ involvement. Zinn zeroes in on the horrors done by the US to the Vietnamese people. The war’s outcome in terms of US involvement was described by the New York Times very well, as it stated, “’The U.S. emerges as the big loser and history books must admit this…Successive American governments were never able to muster the necessary mass support at home,’” (Zinn 501). The Americans entered the war seemingly unnecessarily, officially declaring war after the unprovoked attack in the Gulf of Tonkin, which was later discovered fake. Zinn’s attitude throughout the entire chapter leads me to believe that he disapproves on extreme levels of the actions taken by the US during this time.
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” The American public should refrain from gaining any negative or unauthorized influences by the military-industrial complex. The people should fight the military spending. Everything is eventually going to fail and be a disaster if power is given to the wrong people. The term MIC became widespread because of how it fit with what was going on with the military at the time. In American history, military spending was never high and consistent and now it was finally occurring.
Thanks to the likes of de Villepin and Reid, we now not only fight Muslim fascism abroad but also defeatism at home and throughout the West. As we've stated before, we should call political opportunists such as Reid, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi precisely what they are: Traitors. In stark contrast to the words of these scoundrels, the actions of Todd Beamer and his comrades on Flight 93 live on in our nation's commitment to defeat this jihadist scourge. Just this week, the administration released its revised National Strategy for Combating Terrorism, a document that details how our actions adapt as the war
Comparing American Voices: The Toll of War Matthew Siegert History 1025 Professor Villarreal November 13, 2009 The Vietnam War was a place in history of brutal killings and political shamble. The whole war was fought over a political crisis yet America won every battle, but not the war. Four American voices are heard in the Toll of War and their voices lay out a timeline of gruesome events and the reality of the Vietnam War. From being forced into fighting for economic reasons to having no choice but to join the war, the four voices show us what it was really like for soldiers on the field. Donald L. Whitfield was a southern Alabama boy who grew up a confederate and worked on cars for a living.
America, despite its efforts, could not remain neutral and was forced to enter World War 1. Germany did not respect America’s decision to stay neutral and purposely sunk their ships in the British Isles. They sent the Zimmerman Telegram uniting other countries against America. Lastly, they blockaded British ports and prevented American trade with France and GB. Over 100,000 Americans died during WW1, but were rewarded with patriotism, an Allie victory and trade which once again
They needed the Americans, and they used an ingenious tactic to cause the Americans to join the war: the death of its own civilians. The civilians on the ship, warned by the Germans, refused to listen to a warning, causing their death on the Lusitania. The total number of Americans who died represented a very small portion of the United States’ total population. The American public over-exaggerated the sinking of the Lusitania and overreacted to the death of very few people compared to America as a whole. The British blockade kept all trades away from the Germans, including food (Ghost Liners 124).Yet, when the Germans retaliate, the Americans hate them for it.
Although the Army had been in these parts of Iraq before the Marines were, the grunts, ground soldiers, of the Marines knew that the Army didn’t do their job and that they would now have to clear the area of all Mujahideen themselves. The Mujahideen are a global terrorist organization that occupies many parts of the Middle East, and the main group of people America was fighting against along with the Al Qaeda. As these soldiers have as much fun as they can and develop a brotherhood with each other, they also experience many tragedies and losses as many of their fellow Marines lose their lives and limbs while defending
An American that had been deeply divided over how much aid to give the Allies was not united in a common purpose: make the Japanese pay for their attack and rid the world of Nazism and Fascism. There were many deaths, including 68 civilians (most of them killed by anti-aircraft shells landing in Honolulu) there were 1,178 military and civilian wounded, and the death toll came up to 2,403 people. Pearl Harbor was a critical moment for the United States, because until the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the United States was staying out of a war that the rest of the world was involved in. When Japan attacked the United States, our country the U.S. declared war on them. When the U.S. declared war on the Japanese, Japan and axis’ allies declared war on our
However, very little literature addresses the predicament of solders who had to endure the dangers of the battle field with most of them scantily understanding the reason for the bloodshed. The war was particularly fuelled by a battle of supremacy in ideologies and the ambition of certain political leaders to impose their ideologies on certain nations. The situation that had emanated to a full blown world war had begun much earlier characterized by mutual suspicion, regional alliances, conspiracy and espionage. Heller attempts to bring out the sufferings that the soldiers who were forced to shoot each other just because politicians had passed legislations requiring them to do so. In Chapter One of the novel Yossarian outlines how he was forced to love the hospital because it gave him momentary peace away from the harsh conditions of the battle field.