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

Since week one...

Looking back on week one posts in this blog, I noticed that everyone generally wrote about the meaninglessness of us being at war. No one knows the real reason we are there anymore, and fighting a war that has no purpose is just plain stupid.

However, almost everyone this week brought up this point. True, as college students we don’t pay enough attention to the news as we should, but that doesn’t mean that there is no coverage on the war. I am guilty also for not keeping up with news headlines, but I know that there is still a lot of commotion over what is going on overseas. Especially now that presidential candidates are in the running for the election in November; every debate, every rally and every news report they give has to do with the war. It is the main topic in the race, mainly because everyone has different views on it and why we are there.

I’m sure that everyone is still just as confused as they were in week one about the war, but I’m sure we can all form our own opinions when and if we pay attention to the news headlines that talk about it.

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