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 27, 2008

Looking Back

Looking back on week 1 posts, I realized that so many people do not understand why we are in Iraq and so many people do not care to learn. It is difficult for anyone to understand why we are still there because there is barely any news coverage on it and there may truly be no reason. We also have so many other problems in our country that it is hard to pay attention to something that is rarely talked about. I never have time to watch the news so I didn’t realize that there is minimal coverage on the war. It is not something that one thinks about every day, which could technically be a bad thing. The fact is that no one understands the war and when there is so little coverage it makes people not care. Also, I noticed that many other countries are not involved in the war at all. This is hard to believe because in so many other wars we have had countries on our side throughout it all as well as against us. It is a sad reality and hopefully one day we will have an answer and an end.

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