The question of class right now is : "is war good or bad?"
My answer I am sure you all already know is for the most part... good.
Even though people are killed and that is not okay the out come of war is most of the time good.
My main point of a good war is the Civil War. Yes people were killed and yes it could have ruined some land and even families that is not good BUT what was the outcome? the slaves were freed and were treated by the government as normal people.. I don't believe that you can say war is flat out bad end of story. if you look through history you can find many many examples of a good out come of war. I am sure we all agree on that. I am not denying the fact that war dose incredibly bad things.. but I believe that this is not an "absolute truth" because there are good and bad things to war I will list some bad: the death of many people. the destruction of land. the tearing apart of families. good: it accomplished the task at hand. the disagreement between the two sides is gone. in the case of the Civil war and some others people were freed and were treated right.
To the argument of the war for oil:
I believe that as the United States President George Bush's main responsibility is to take care of his country. yes hopefully he can help other countries in need but his main goal is to take care of us no matter how selfish that seems to you it is the point of presidency. As the leader of our country he has make the other countries know "were not to be messed with" for lack of a better phrase. George Bush has to protect his family so the other families know "not to mess with us" if we let the other countries know that they can charge us extra on oil just to make a quick buck then they need to know they can't do that. For the United States to stay "on top" along with some other countries then we need to let them know whose boss.. we would never ever stay on top if we were to let other countries know they can take advantage of us. Now you may ask what about being humble? and we already have enough money lets let them charge us extra for gas well as to being humble.. I'm sorry but as a county we have to stay on top if we want to keep our land and not have it be invaded. and as to the we are the wealthiest county.. no.. one we aren't the wealthiest country and two we have a very good amount of poverty in this nation. we can not higher gas prices any more because right now it is hard for a lot of Americans to fill up their gas tank. it just isn't practical to higher gas prices any more.
I could say a whole lot more but I think you guys get the point and my fingers are tired..
5 comments:
i agree! she is right...its the truth! amazing job!
it took me awile to read it hahahahaha i really agree with that tay your going to do GREAT in debate
Taylor, I agree with you on your first point. I agree that some wars are necessary and good. Another example is in the War of Independence. There might have not been any other way for America to get it's freedom. However, I disagree about what you're saying about the war for cheaper oil. Yes, George Bush's responsibility is to protect his nation, and there is no reason for America to pay higher oil prices. However, the Bible says "if possible, live peaceably with all men". To start a war to get lower oil prices is ironic because there are so many other options. Other nations, including America, have LOTS of oil; it is unessential to invade another country to get lower oil prices. It is also the president's job to protect his nation, and since America is deep in debt, spending more money on a war isn't where I would want America's money to be going.
Terry:
I don't know how much you have researched this but the reason oil so so much more money then it used to be is because Gas is running out. the only place left for oil is in Alaska which I don't know if you have heard of it is called ANWAR the drilling of oil in Alaska I don't know much of what they have found but I am pretty sure not much.. oil is becoming rare on the earth.. the places we are getting oil from are basically the only countries with oil left. Otherwise obviously America would not have made war if we could have gotten it somewhere else..
Taylor, I asked my dad about oil in Alaska and he told me that Alaskan oil is very bad quality compared to middle eastern oil. So, you're right that there isn't much GOOD oil in Alaska, and that's why America wants middle eastern oil.
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