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.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Personal Views.

Personally, I have not been greatly affected by the war in Iraq. Fortunately, I have not had any family members or friends that have gone overseas to defend our country. All I know about the war is basically what I hear on TV or in the news. I am sympathetic for all those who have lost loved ones in war, but cannot truly feel how they do since I haven’t gone through it personally. It saddens me when I see the clips and pictures of those men and women that have lost their lives in war, and I can’t even begin to imagine the loss that their families must be going through.
I am not really knowledgeable about the war as much as a should be, and therefore cannot really hold an argument on my opinion since I do not have much information on our current position. I know that many people are opposed to it, and I myself also feel that there could be other ways to solve this issue. When the war first started, I was too young to really be informed on what was going on. Even today, although I am more mature and old enough to form my own opinion, I still don’t really know the details of the war.

I plan on voting in the upcoming presidential election, and know that the war is a hot topic for debate between candidates. To make a decision on whom I would like to vote for, I am interested on their views of the war and plan to keep myself informed by the time election day comes.

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