The War in Afghanistan
A New StrategyThis week President Obama announced his new strategy for fighting the war in Afghanistan. Since then there has been no shortage of political commentary on the subject. I have chosen three articles, all with very different points of view for you to consider.
The first article by Bob Herbert (A Tragic Mistake) argues that President Obama's plan is a mistake. The next article by Charles Krauthammer(Uncertain Trumpet) is also critical of the President's plan, but for a completely different reason. The last article (Surge, Then Leave) by David Ignatius is in favor of the President's strategy.
Look at all three articles and answer the questions on your current events worksheet, then post your own opinion of the President's plan in the comments section.
What is Obama thinking? we want to stop this war not continue it. He even said he wanted to stop the war and bring the troops back but he's sending 30,000 troops to afghanistan.
ReplyDeletewell tell you the truth obama has elephent ears and looks like an orangutan and is a complete idiot for sending 8oo,ooo,ooo,ooo,ooo,ooo,ooo,ooo,ooo,ooo,ooo,ooo more troops over to iraq
ReplyDeleteI'm glad the president is sending more troops over, but I think that he should be sending more. If your gonna send 30,000 over for 18 mounths he should send 60,000 and get the job done right.
ReplyDeleteI think it was wrong to send more troops over. i think we need to bring them all home and end the war. we should of just kept out of it in the first place and just worrie about or own country and take care of our own problems and not worrie about other countrys problems
ReplyDeleteSuch sad days these are to be an American -- pathetically sad.America models to the world hubris, stupidity, arrogance, and a refusal to learn. America models violence -- as if armed force solves all problems that corporate marketing and advertising may not.Imagine an America where students learned foreign languages and cultures as part of the U.S.'s now-obvious interdependence with the world. I say "obvious," except few Americans see the world with any knowledge of or respect for its many differences -- Americans see the world through their own consumerist and entitlement
ReplyDelete"narrative." That -- "narrative" -- is what your war shill colleague Tom Friedman believes only one amorphously-held Islamic world holds -- not Good Guys with helicopter gunships, cruise missles, and 1,000s of nukes to force the consumerism agenda of Corporate America.
So sad that that this Corporate America has taught all its elites to have no community interest, no public concerns -- and taught them also to be oblivious of the sheer greed and stupidity narrative that unites them, the indifference to other cultures, and the reliance on violence that now, too, Prez O-Bush III ruts in.
i think the decision the president made for the war was not a bad decision necessarily, but i feel we should continue to fight to the end of the war.
ReplyDeletei think Obama should just bring everyone home. Who cares if that counrty fails? its not like its us. as long as we kill the bad people first then they should all come home. And i think that sending 30,000 more troops isnt a good idea.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion the presodent should send the troops to Iraq. We need to finis this war once and for all. Theyre playing cat and mouse. the only way to exterminate a tricky mouse is to cover every area with traps sso he has no choice but come out. The taliban doesnt stand a chance when face to face with us so we need to get tem face to face.
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