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!

In week one we pretty much decided that the Iraq war was not a point that it effected us significantly. We also have not reached the point that every American hates this war enough to pull out. If every member of Congress voted against funding the Iraq war and against extending the war than the war would end. This can be connected to the story we read for class. The lawyer was obviously upset and wanted to deal with Bartleby but he needed to reach that critical point before the lawyer finally would act. This could be the same thing with the American public because we have no reached the tipping point to act against the Iraq war.
Eventually the American public will become sick of the war in Iraq and finally we will leave that country. Until then we all say we want to pull out but the people we elect do a great job of letting us down.

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