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.

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Wednesday, April 9, 2008

WW2, Supporting Our Allies or Money Machine


Most people understand that the United States entered the second War World to help restore peace and order on the Earth.  While the facts point to Germany becoming overly powerful and threatening the safety of our nation as well as all other nations as well, know that during this time the United States was still in Depression during the beginning  of the war.  We did not really have the money to go to war, and as the Germans and their allies poked and prodded the U.S. we remained out of the conflict until President Roosevelt (and eventually Truman)  saw a different outcome of the war, which is war production yielding wealth and escape from our Depression.  Whether this was conscientiously or not does not matter because the war, although extremely bloody and long drawn out, the war did boost the U.S. from its Depression back into the thriving market it was before the Crash. 

This resembles the War in Iraq.  There was a big conflict between a few countries, and let me say that this conflict was nothing new, it had been going on.  The U.S. stayed out of it while we handled our own problems for a little while but as soon as a president saw some money in the conflict, the U.S. stuck its nose in to try and delegate.  This turned out to be very costly.  Iraq sent the kamikaze rouges and destroyed  some very famous structures in our nation.  Pre-was our market was dropping some and some said it could possibly lead to another crash.  Without support Bush sent troops over and now instead of the war machine making out nation money, gas prices have sky rocketed which has damaged our market quite heavily, and well as the astronomical growth in our nation's debt.  If the war had been short and less costly it may have been beneficial to the U.S. and our market, but the facts stand that it has gone on long enough.  No good has come of the drawn out war.  The country shouldn't exist right now and their oil should have already been claimed as the U.S.'s rightful resource.

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