Prompt: Why Are We At War?
Through out Why are We at War?, Norman Mailer states some very clearly organized and well written ideas, going from Bush, the mastermind who wants America to be the Rome of the twenty-first century to the simple need for the Middle East's oil supply. As I read Mailer's ideas, I realised that I actually agreed with his ideas, although in a different way.
For instance, Mailer states that Bush wants to make America a global empire. He states that Bush wants America to be like Rome, with the Iraqis as our Greek slaves. My response? Name one person who has ever been president who did not want the United States of America to be recognized as a world power, and hopefully a global empire. Bush is not the first man to become president and do something crazy to try to gain more power. Is power not the reason that people become president, or a high-up official? I can not blame Bush for wanting these things, because these same accusations would be thrown at any other person in office.
Mailer also states that the U.S. troops are in Iraq so that America can obtain the oil supply there. According to the statistics Mailer uses in his book, Iraq alone controls 11% of the world's oil supply, with only Saudi Arabia ahead of them. Mailer goes on to state that America uses19.5 million barrels of oil per day, or almost 26% of the world's supply. Can you honestly blame Bush for having this as one of his incentives to go to Iraq? And, I do not want to hear any complaints out of anyone who drives a vehicle that requires gasoline. What would you do with out it?
One other reason that Mailer mentions is the need for revenge on Iraq for the damage done on 9/11. This one I know no one can argue, for we all have this mind set: THEY MUST PAY. Or, at least, we did. What we, as Americans, need to realize is, Bush is doing what we all pushed him to do 6 years ago, after that dreadful day when so many American lives were lost. Would it have caused any less stress for him if he had ignored the calls for war, and had not done anything? Would he still be as unpopular as he is today in America's society. Yeah....that's what I thought too.
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Pass. I disagree whole-heartedly. Just because we need oil and they have it is no reason to kill 1,000,000 civilians. Also, the revenge argument is nice, except Iraq never attacked us.
Pass. Several good points were made in your blog.
Pass. You make some great points that many people haven't thought of.
Pass. I see where you are coming from although i disagree. There were also a few grammatical errors.
pass. you made some really good points and backed them up with facts. i really enjoyed reading your blog it had feeling.
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