Eric Diment
3rd Period
November 14th, 2010
The war in Afghanistan has raged on for nine years driving our country further in debt and a weaker economy. Afghanistan, the crossroads of central Asia, is 80 percent Sunni and the most of the remaining are Shi’a. The diverse beliefs and religions tear apart this country and the United States has been in the effort to install a new democracy. This new democracy is planned to hold a vibrant civil society and strong structure back up with stable infrastructure. After years of war, the United State’s greatest predicament is whether to pull troops out of Afghanistan or stay to further the progress of this country’s dire need of a democracy.
A recent panel showed that if the war in Afghanistan does not progress, the government needs to change there mission. Armitage, Bush’s Secretary of State, stated that Obama wasn’t given a great lie to heal the Middle Eastern predicaments once he took office, but he needs to have a clear cut plan to act on if the United States current mission is not progressing enough. Democrats believe that the United States current mission of installing a new democracy is not successful and a new course of action needs to take place. A new idea is to remain counter terror while advancing the Afghan National Security Forces. Their patience and time are short and the downsizing of military in that region or expected to be released with the Obama administration in the U.S. policy due in November.
The Republican outlook on the war is on a harsher scale. Because Obama wants to stay in Afghanistan and build a new government, the republicans want to oppose his plan. The republicans want to pull military forces out of an exhausted war that the American public is tired and irritated with its slow progress while more soldiers die for what appears to be a meaningless cause. Republicans believe that to be a right plan of action or another; end the war and terrorism. The republicans have two options; they can either oppose Obama and his plan or act on their idea of stopping terrorism and working completely on the war effort. However, opposing Obama and his administration would be a wiser choice because it would put the support of American opinion behind them. America is tired of this war because it seems like such a lost cause that has dropped substantially in the United States biggest concerns.
After a controversial nine years of war, current plans are unsure but will soon be decided. The democrats want to stay and help re – build a secure and stable country. The republicans need to decide whether to continue their war efforts or oppose Obama and the democrats and shoot for support from Americans. The past war efforts have created a current slow progression towards any success for either party. Now it is time to make a final decision on whether to leave with trust in their national security or stay and end the terrorist groups which will cause more government spending.
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ReplyDeleteI see that you were first to comment on your paper. That's cool. :) No one has commented on mine. Oh, well. This paper is very thorough. You did a nice job. I agree that if the war doesn't progress soon, then something needs to change. Who would have though the war would last this long?! I remember the attacks like it was yesterday. Do you? Even though media about the war has died down, it is still a huge issue and needs to be discussed among the public more.
ReplyDeleteEric, wasn't it the Republicans who got us into Afghanistan in the first place? The real reason they Reps want the Dems to pull out the military is to embarrass the Democratic Party for the first military war loss in U.S. I believe that this strategy is being used by the Republicans to weaken the Democratic Party. However, you are correct when you mention that we are sick of this long war, that would have been won a long time ago if we were more diplomatic.
ReplyDeleteI do not personally know what is best but I do believe that what is started should be finished.
ReplyDeleteWell im rather surprised that the repubs want to leave the afganistan! i figured they would want to stay while the democrats would want to leave. i love how obama lied about how he was gunna pull troops out of Afganistan... anyway! i thought this was interesting the the repubolicans would actually wan to be out of a war lol but thats good. i just want to cut our spending on defense! for the love of goodness!! great paper !
ReplyDeleteI too am surprised to see the Republicans want to disembark for Afganistan, it just seems like they'd support staying and fighting, while the Democrats want to leave due to it possibly preventing America from progressing as much as it could, do the amount of funding that goes in to fighting.
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