Many people believe we invaded Iraq for the wrong reasons and I would have to agree. I do not think we invaded because we truly felt like we protecting the people in Iraq or trying to prevent future attacks. I believe we had our own political and economic agenda for invading. People will argue that we were attacked and we needed to defend ourselves. I would argue that we did not exhaust every possible scenario before we entered with violence.
The First World War did not arise primarily as a result of planned Germany aggression. Discuss. The First World War started due to many of reasons, many Historians’, such as Fischer, argue that it could have been down to Germany’s aggression and that Germany had always been planning a war. This is supported by Source two, written by James Joll, which argues that the war did result of planned German aggression. Meanwhile, other Historians, such as Steven Ozment in, sources one, believe the First World War started from various other reasons such as alliances, arms race and all countries just slithered into war.
A few weeks ago, one of the president's advisors told NPR that Mr. Bush never wanted to burden the public with the war; that, in his mind, he was hired by the American people to do the job on their behalf. Gingrich says the President is placed in an awkward position. "I think the President is torn between reassuring us that he's managing the war and warning us that it's a real war," says Gingrich. "You have organized opponents who want to kill you — they're gathering resources and coordinating to try to kill you — and I think to try to describe it as anything but a war, is remarkably misleading." The War with No
Many American citizens in 1959 viewed the Vietnam War as a righteous battle against communism, similar to the Iraq War today however now many view this war as a necessary battle against terrorism. Looking at America's overall goal in Vietnam, it is evident that we did not come close to keeping South Vietnam from collapsing, who fell to communist rule in 1975 (Frankum 210). America's involvement in the conflicts of Vietnam and Iraq were so discordant that our government, people, and military were constricted. Yet both wars were fought with the knowledge that America may change the invaded nation, which brings a precarious question; what makes the government believe that they have the right to go into a country and change it to the way they
This could cause some conflict in the government which would not help matters either. 15 million Americans are still out of work, and many citizens are questioning whether or not they should have trusted Obama. Gas prices have been a major topic as of late, and they will most likely continue to get worse unless a major change is made by Obama and the rest of the Democratic nation. The national average gas price has gone up a whopping 25 percent since Obama became President. The Democrats blame the Republicans for this high cost of gasoline because they link Republicans to big oil companies.
financial crisis hit last year. (Associated Press, 2009).” Toyota had recently lost $3.5 billion even though they had the recent growth and financial stability. Losing this amount of money in such a short time period has scared their company and has been the first major downfall since the company started up in 1950 and having a record breaking year previously with 1.7 billion dollars in profits. With a solid growth record for the past 60 years it looked as though this would be very unlikely to happen to Toyota. This illustrates that even a multi-national company such as Toyota is not immune from financial mistakes, even with a strong past performance and competitive product line up.
Gaddafi still has weapons of mass destruction, so putting our military out there would be extremely dangerous. I believe a no-fly zone is a great idea though, but by doing that, we can end up harming the people that we are trying to help. We would cause a war with a Muslim country. So I really like how Obama is taking caution to go to Libya, and just not sending our military out there without double and triple thinking it. Also if we put our troops out into Libya, we don't know how long we would be there for.
This continued Imperialism forced the countries to seek out allies with similar ideals. When a spark happened within one of the alliances it meant the beginning of a world war. The United States tried to remain neutral but Germany was not going to let that happen. Fortunately the addition of the United States into the war led to a quick resolution and the United States for a time would remain as the only powerful
Many Americans think that safety is important and are willing to give up their civil liberties and first amendment rights; but then where does it stop? If the government is allowed to do whatever they want under the guise of combating terror, then America will surely cease to be a democratic republic. In the book “The Dark Side” written by Jane Mayer, it is stated that some in the extreme right wing of the Republican Party believe that there are too many civil liberties and too many checks and balances against the Executive Branch and that these should be removed (Mayer, 2008, p. 6). The “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism” Act of 2001 (USA PATRIOT act), that was enacted after 9/11, has many sections that take away the rights of Americans, most of which were probably never even read by the members of congress. One of the many horrors that this act allows is the legality of the law enforcement to acquire and view e-mails sent via the World Wide Web as well as phone numbers that you have dialed without first informing you or without obtaining a court order.
There will always be radicals ready to commit acts of terrorism for whatever motive they may have. If the United States remains in this war on terror, then the war will never end. Former U.S. President George W. Bush talked about the goals of the "war on terror" in a September 20, 2001 speech, in which he said it "will not end until every terrorist group of global reach