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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.

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Sunday, April 27, 2008

Tipping Point

In an earlier post, a student talked about the "tipping point" in Bartleby and the Scrivener and with the Iraq war. He stated that the lawyer didnt reach the tipping point and yell at Bartleby to get out of the office and how America is not at the tipping point where everyone in this country wants to pull out of Iraq. Although i can agree that the lawyer did not reach the point where he seriously wanted to kick Bartleby's ass, i disagree that there is a tipping point for Iraq. We can not wait around for a tipping point and look forward to it. We need to have one thing in mind: Victory. To get a victory in the war, we need to focus and work towards our goals. The lawyer should have taken more action and focused on getting Bartleby out of his office and out of his life. The lawyer clearly lacked aggression, and it is a mistake that the U.S. should not make. The U.S. needs to be the aggressor in the war and we shouldnt think about a tipping point where we pull out. We need to be optimistic that there will be postive gains towards winning the war in the future. By saying we have not reached our tipping point to pull out, it is like saying we know we are going to give up and we are waiting for that day.
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future_tristar said...

Vince -

I agree with you that it isn't ideal for our country to just sit around, waiting until our tipping point has been reached. How can we expect any progression in the war if nothing is implimented?

I feel that no matter what, there will never be the ultimate tipping point. Being the democratic society that we have to work with, there will always be divided views about what steps should be taken in order to advance or end the war. And even within those two perspectives, there are too many views on how those measures could be approached that there is no real consensus among anyone.

Perhaps the tipping point is that we'll never actually have a tipping point, or for lack of a better phrase, everyone's inner tipping point is in too many different directions to tip anywhere.

May 1, 2008 at 9:07 PM

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