Welcome...and initial guidelines...

This blog will be used in the spring of 2008 by 80+ students at Drexel University to investigate the effects of Iraq on culture and the reverse. Our goal will be to better understand why the US is in Iraq, and to question whether literature can help us on this journey.

Weekly plans and other materials will always be posted in Vista, not this blog. So go to Bb Vista to get the discussion prompts and other instructions.

I intend this blog to manage our discussions and track our collective investigation.

You should have received an email from me inviting you to become a contributor to this blog. The email was sent Monday afternoon to your official Drexel email address.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Blog 4: Collateral Damage

What else could be better to reduce civilian deaths and maximize enemy causalities? Engineers design bombs to meet that very requirement. Minimizing civilian deaths by decreasing the collateral damage only provides a win win situation for the U.S military. Civilian deaths can cause many problems the Military ground troops, which was sometimes the case in Iraq. When a bomb kills your friend, your parents or your siblings, your not just going to accept it and move on; you will seek revenge. That is exactly the case sometimes in Iraq, when a bomb does not land at its designed target. So by solving that problem, and reducing civilian causalities, we are not keeping the civilians safe but our ground troops as well. And most importantly no one has the right to kill innocent human beings, no matter who they are or where they might live. Anther important point to note is that in 21st century battlefields, the scenario will most likely be in a city full of civilians. The enemy will use Guerrilla warfare to try to get the civilians involved and make the situation more complicated for our troops. This technology will help our troops get pass that and destroy the enemy without bringing any harms to surrounding troops.

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