In my first post, I expressed concern that both soldiers and citizens alike were getting killed in Iraq. After writing my paper, the way I feel about the fighting hasn't changed. After reading Bartleby, I definitely found myself not feeling well-founded in my motives, though. The main character had trouble deciding what would be the right thing to do, and I did along with him. Our relationship to Iraq seems very similar.
At first, it didn't seem like a bad idea, but problems arose and we soon had a problematic situation with no easy way out. Now, no one really knows the best thing to do, because staying is endangering our soldiers and leaving would be irresponsible. Much like the scrivener, we don't really know how best to handle the situation. No matter what we do, we're going to be heavily criticized, both for going in and for the way we handled it. Characters in the story were also somewhat critical of the scrivener and had a lot of compassion for Bartleby, like militants and others do for Iraq. Hopefully, unlike the scrivener, we can find a solution that leaves both the US and Iraq stable and peaceful.
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