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 13, 2008

Moral Missiles

War is war. There will always be casualties. If you have the technology to not take out innocent civilians, then that should be utilized. As was said in the NPR interview, you do not want to take out places like a hospital. Killing indiscriminately is murder. What was done in WWII is what needed to be done in that situation. The entire world was at war and the war needed to be finished before the entire world was destroyed. Now, in Iraq, it is a different situation, because we are not fighting a nation. We are fighting terrorists. To look at it honestly, we really don’t know who we are fighting, but if there is a known threat it should be eliminated. In the end, less Americans will die and probably less people, if those terrorists are taken out. As Marc Galasko said, whether you are for the war or not, it is going to happen, and we have to do it as well as we can.

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