Blog Assignment #5

After doing a lot of research and coming across many different blogs and websites created, I am still not 100% about the specific topic I want to further research and pursue. A lot of my unit 1 essay focused on the liberals and their views on the war as well as how they are in some ways terrorist agitators.  Although this topic is very interesting to me, another thing that I came across is the amount of people that have been injured and killed during this war. Taking the movie Alive Day for instance, each person discussed their injuries they obtained and their experiences fighting in the Iraq war. Aside from knowing that during war many soldiers will be injured and killed, seven to eight million were killed during World War I, why continue to fight this war? Is the deaths of all of these Iraqi and American soldiers as well as civilians really worth it? And for what reason? All of these questions are still up in the air for me. When looking at the ideas and views of the liberals however, I wonder why they “are against” our country. People can disagree with the war but I do not understand why they are essentially in support of the terrorists. All of these ideas branch out of my unit 1 paper.

If following through with the idea of the amount of people killed during the Iraq war so far and how this is affecting our country I feel that the documentaries I have seen will help to emphasize my thoughts. Seeing people talk about their experiences such as in Alive Day, really got me thinking about their futures from this point on and how many people are actually dying and getting injured. I personally do not think we should be continuing to fight in this war especially with the amount of people who are coming home injured as well as the civilians in Iraq who are being harmed. I possibly intend to research this topic because I feel that many people think they know a lot about the war and what is going on in Iraq when in reality, they don’t know much at all. By digging deeper into the motives behind the war and figuring out why we are still fighting in lieu of all of the soldiers that are dying, I feel that it will help to answer a lot of questions about the war.

Research is obviously an ongoing thing in any research assignment. I have already found many blogs created by veterans that express their feelings and attitudes towards the war. Since my unit 1 paper is still a work in progress I could use sources then I find for that obviously for this. There have been a few news articles as well as blogs created with the views and ideas of the liberals, especially during this war. I think that any of the sources I come across will be slightly opinionated and because of that, I don’t know how creditable they will be. Veterans view the war a lot differently than us civilians do and although the ideas are based off of the events, having been there first hand and seeing the harsh realities can easily impact someone’s attitude towards the situation as a whole. The liberals as a general group of people have a set of ideas and beliefs. it would be interesting to me to find someone who is a liberal and hear their personal opinions and views. I think that any first hand encounters although they are probably mostly opinion, can be useful.

Either of these topics obviously will interest anyone who has feelings and interest towards the war. For people that don’t know as much about what is going on in Iraq it will also interest them. Whether it is the reason we are fighting, about the the amount of soldiers and civilians who are getting injured, or the views of the liberals in this country based on the current war, I feel that it can enhance any information people already know, or teach them a lot about what is actually going on overseas related to our country.

2 comments July 18, 2008