The two articles that I chose appealed to me because they had differing views on the topic of bringing the Iraq war to an end. The first is an article written by Nicholas Wapshott of the New York Sun, titled “Talks Are Set on Ending Battle of Iraq”. In it is a positive account of recent reports that describes a decrease in the amount of American soldiers to be stationed in Iraq. Over all this is an optimistic lookout for those who oppose the war, as it suggests that this decrease of soldiers, will lead to peace agreements and an end to the war as a whole.
It is starkly different from the article from the Associated Press titled, “Report: US no closer to Iraq goals.” Bradley Brooks, the AP writer, writes that a recent U.S. Institute of Peace report states that the U.S. has ailed to accomplish its goals. The report, written members of the Iraq Study Group, says that taking soldiers out of Iraq now could result in chaos and possible genocide.
The two articles focus on the same issue but present it in a way that the reader would like to hear. For example, someone who strongly opposes the war would catch on to Wapshott’s title, and be pleased with the outcomes of the reports he highlights, and vice versa for Brook’s article.
In addition, both articles mention the aftereffects of taking soldiers out of the war immediately and quickly. And both say that there will be a necessity to keep a few thousand soldiers stationed in the violent cities. However, the first article calls this reserve of soldiers a way to “protect our interests in Iraq, alongside our Iraqi partners…”When I read this is felt gullible and believed that keeping a few of our Americans in Iraq would help to keep our nations tied together.
The second article, clearly presents this issue as a way for our soldiers to be forced into acting as a police force in Iraq to make sure that no insurgents surface and so that the government doesn’t fall back into a Saddam-like rule. It was a more realistic account of what the soldiers would be used for, as law enforcement.
http://www2.nysun.com/article/67000
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080406/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_no_closer_1;_ylt=AhG6gI0or49oSj_ewBumSE9X6GMA
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