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, May 18, 2008

DaimNation!

The blog concerns with many things but mostly politics and war. There are many subjects touched in this blog, such as the new Smart car that is not even fuel efficient and people don’t even understand spending money for that car. However, as I mentioned before, the concentration is war, and more specifically the War in Afghanistan. The authors concentrate in College kids who apparently don’t have a clue why US soldiers are in Afghanistan, and another discussion about why Canada should go in Afghanistan.
The tone of the authors is very critic, to anything mentioned in the blog, and specifically to the Canada government, that is not willing to send troops to support the mission in Afghanistan.
The authors are openly pro this war, and try to convince the audience that going to that war is necessary, and American government (which started the war) is right in what they are doing.
Personally, I never concerned myself with war issues and politics, but following a certain logic, I think since 9/11, the world started a new mission anti-terrorism, and if it takes that Canadian troops have to go to in Afghanistan and join troops from all over the world in order to preserve peace and fight terrorism, they should go there.

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