Greed

Blog Prompt: Why Are We At War

In the Book, “Why Are We At War” Norman Mailer points out several points. The one point that jumps out at me and commands my attention is where he points out in the book that America, as a whole , was blinded by the need to avenge September 11, that we let our president, George W. Bush lead us into a war with Iraq. He then pointed out that although Saddam was a evil man he did not cause the attacks on our twin towers. I agree with this statement whole heartedly, because Saddam was so worried about dominating his country that I do not think he was brave enough cause such a disaster. It was done by someone that truly hates America with all of his might and wishes nothing more but to tear it down . Osma Bin Ladin loathes America I think that our President George bush knew that . This is why I feel that we are in this war with Iraq to try gain total control of the world.

Just because we run our lives here in the US a certain way, does not give us the right to force anyone else to live like we do. America seems like a Big Bully. Its like we are going into someone else’s backyard and telling them how to live, this is why they are not taking it so well. I have been over there and from what I have seen people in Iraq live awful. The funny thing is that they didn’t know that they were living in a bad condition until we forced our ideas. Then I think that if America was so humane then why should America just stop at Iraq why isn’t the U.S. trying to save Africa from itself . To me, the reason is because Africa does not have anything the that U.S. can to gain from as far as Natural Resources. I want to help Iraq, but I can’t help but feel like we got plenty problems here in America that needs just as much attention as Iraq. I want to help just not at the expense of America’s blood being shed. Especially when it all boils down to just plain old greed masked by a concept of rehabilitation.