Journal #7
The Article that I read for this journal was “Iraq and the Polls,” by David Brooks. I entirely agree with everything that Brooks says. His main point is that people just want the struggles that we are having in Iraq to end, but haven’t considered the consequences of defeat. I don’t think that the 60% of the Americans that feel this way believe this because they haven’t been given an accurate assessment of what our situation is. It is impossible to know without having experienced it first hand. The media in our country controls what we see, and present it from any angle that they choose. It is most often shown from a liberal viewpoint in opposition of the war. With this perspective, the news mainly focuses on the negatives of the war and rarely the positives. With this negative stance, the most obvious decision would be to withdraw from the war, even without considering the cost. With our removal from Iraq, America’s image would be shattered and we would leave the country in the same state that it was when we entered.
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