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.

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Tuesday Classes Post

There is a lot that I do not agree with when it comes to our current war in Iraq, but there is not enough daylight for me to examine those. I feel that this war is costing us way to much money, with money being used uselessly, but some is used in a necessary fashion. When it comes to the requirements of estimating a bomb attack, I feel that evrything they do is necessary, regardless of the cost. Back in WWII, everything was so chaotic and such a kill spree, that such an attack was just freely done. Now, if we were to just drop a bomb, killing hundreds or thousands of innocent people, penalties would be returned. For one, the UN may step in a declare it unwarranted and suddenly you have more enemies than just the people you bombed. Also, war is no longer the same. Troops are not huddled together in groups of thousands or standing across from one another to do battle, so it is impossible to wipe out an enemy with one attack. Lastly, I think the most likely reason for not doing a careless attack is the retaliation. Over the past couple of years, our world has endured nuclear terror to the point where some people believed there would be a nuclear war, killing everybody. If we bombed Iraq or some surrounding country in the Middle East, it is likely that one would be returned, with us returning another, and so on, until eventually millions of people are killed. The goal of a war is to defeat your enemy, but when it comes to bombs, care is extremely necessary.

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