Write a critical essay asserting your opinion of the current war in Iraq. Your paper should draw upon representations of the Vietnam War in Tim O’Brien’s short story “The Things They Carried” and/or Jeannie Barroga’s play Walls. Thus, this paper will, in addition to being a research paper, be a comparative analysis of the two military conflicts, in Vietnam and Iraq. In short, your task is to 1) consider the representation of the Vietnam War in the primary text(s) above, 2) develop your own viewpoint about the Vietnam War based on primary and/or secondary sources, 3) compare current conditions involving the war in Iraq with your understanding of the Vietnam War. This process should culminate with your own assertion about the current war in Iraq.
2007-04-12 07:54:35 · 8 answers · asked by WaTs Up 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Sounds like the asker needs to read The Things They Carried and/or Walls, write the essay comparing the Vietnam and Iraq "wars", and finish with his/her own assertion about Iraq.
If your teacher wanted our opinion, he's have asked this on Answers himself.
Now get off the internet and get crackin"!
2007-04-12 08:06:15 · answer #1 · answered by tcdrtw 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Playing devil's advocate here.... Pulling out now would make the cost and sacrifices up to now meaningless, and would betray the people in Iraq who want us to stay and help them build a free democratic Iraq. (sunk cost fallacy, and most of the later are long dead or have fled the country..and were never a majority in the first place.) Pulling out now would embolden our enemies around the world. (Does not follow argument...and our enemies want us to stay in Iraq.) Oil is absolutely vital to western economies and the free world, it is essential we retain our control of it. (the first part is true..the second part is based on some very sketchy premises.) Spreading our American values of democracy and human rights is the only long term guarantee of world peace and stability. (It's not clear that's what we are doing...and spreading your values at the point of a gun is forced conversion.) Pulling out now would embolden the peaceniks in the USA, making it that much harder for the USA to respond proactively to other looming threats like Saddam. (classic circular reasoning since for it to be true, it assumes that the war proponents are correct.) We broke it, it is our responsibility to fix the mess the fall of Saddam caused. (This assumes we CAN fix the mess, which is questionable, and is akin to saying arsonists would make great firefighters.) If we don't fight terror in Iraq, they will attack the USA. (this is based on the lie that they are attacking us for ideological reasons, they aren't. And even a cursory understanding of Iraq makes it clear they will fall on each other like rabid dogs when we leave, not get in boats and sail to Coney Island.) I suggest you check the link of logical fallacies, the more of these you can weave into your essay, the more "convincing" it will sound. Good luck, you have a hard row to hoe. :)
2016-04-01 11:27:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow that is the dumbest assignment I have ever heard of. The wars of iraq and vietnam are 2 completely different wars. It sounds like your teacher is trying to get you to say the were both meaningless though that is his own opinion. He is an idiot
2007-04-12 09:21:28 · answer #3 · answered by Kara C 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
not sure exactly for the above but you can use this if it is helpful
- kurds are not the largest distinct minority since each kurd has a different dialect. meaning even though i am part kurdish i cant understand iranian kurds
2-there are many kurds that will fight with the turkish army in north iraq
3-kurds are sunni, shiite or christian
4- there are 40 distinct groups of people in iran, turkey and syria therefore we cant give each a piece of land.
5- international borders were mandated not to change by all countries after the fall of USSR
6- turkey has it in their constitution if kurdistan tries to be independent. most turks are kurdish mixed
7-turkey can help syria and iran to squash this problem
8-this is all the US fault because they are trying to homogenious iraq and divide it so they dont have to deal with anyone other than the kurds. they have paid each kurd 10,000 to move to kirkuk it is sickening. i hate us foreign policy.
2007-04-12 08:08:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Do your research thats how you learn, by reading books on the stuff, not getting someone on the internet to do it for you, and get out of that class your prof is obviously on a tangent
2007-04-12 08:06:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nice try...but I graduated from college and graduate school years ago add high school even further back.
Now go do your homework.
2007-04-12 09:04:01 · answer #6 · answered by iraq51 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You're teacher's a hippie liberal I take it? I will mail you a dollar if you put that in your essay....
2007-04-12 08:00:24 · answer #7 · answered by Brian I 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Its YOUR opinion not ours.
2007-04-12 08:01:49 · answer #8 · answered by Kracker 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋