Conversation about Afghanistan war
Everyone has a different view and opinion about the war in Afghanistan, and iv asked my friends and relatives what they thought about it. My cousin had said she’s against it of not only being pointless, leaving us deeper in debt, the loss of people, and un winnable. But she thought we are being to forceful, by trying to force democracy on them. She didn’t know much about the war, but what she did know was that we are in economic debt. Having most of the money going to weapons, and such things used for the war. Instead of using the money to help the afghan people, we need to use it on our economy and put it into helpful use. Which leaves us with large unemployment rates, and difficulties on finding or keeping a job. Iv asked her how this interferes with her personal life. She had said in her own experience she had been fired from three jobs and had been recently laid off. She stated that, “we should instead focus on our own domestic problems, then help others in need.”
My other friend had other similar arguments yet both against the war. He thought of it that we had no business being there in the first place. He said, “ we should focus on helping the afghan people fight and defend themselves, rather then to have us fight the war for them”. Instead were losing our people and innocent lives from Afghanistan as well. It isn’t worth fighting for since it’s a waste of our resources and lives, and doesn’t defend America of immediate threats. As for example, still having terrorist threats in our country. He then mentioned, that we should help them because of the human rights problems such as the oppression of woman that the Taliban promotes. We should help them organize and fight the resistance themselves. He suggests that we should pull out as soon as we train the afghan people to handle their problems, and go on dealing with our own. I then asked him what about defending us from terrorists attacks. He told me that we have good domestic terrorist security, and that we wont need to be having our men killed for something we have control over. Overall, I go for there opinions and I also am against the war. I didn’t find much surprises about what I had heard though I did learn more.
- andrea llamas
Andrea – Interesting point: How can we continue to spend money on Afghanistan when we know that the government is corrupt and truly not holding up to their end of the bargain? Some of the money is designed to help the people but instead finds its way into the pockets of corrupt government officials. The realization is coming apparently clear to numerous Americans: get out and use that money to help our country. Why are we in Afghanistan? What was the initial purpose? We have good domestic security against terrorism? Christmas day bomber, bomber in Times Square ring a bell? What did you learn? What was the overall experience with your conversations? Content 5; Organization 5; Total 30/36.
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