More or Less Soldiers

Will we ever hear the end of Afghanistan and Iraq? There has been so much talk about pulling the troops who are there out… slowly and there is also talk about sending more troops in. And President Obama is deciding on sending more troops over... whatever. Make up your mind people because this has gone on for far too long.

Almost every single day there is news about how at least one of our solders has died. That is just not something I would like to hear every day. Over 4,000 United States soldiers have died in the war against terrorism. And this whole mess started as the result of 2,751 people dying from the September 11, 2001 attacks. I find it rather sad that the number of casualties on the war against terrorism has surpassed that of September 11.

For those people who goes off thinking “oh that’s not bad compared to over wars.” Think about this; yes there are other wars that have resulted in greater casualties like the Vietnam War but they all share one common factor and that’s someone had died. I don’t care of one person has died, it is still a death. This person is in the ground, dead, for us, as we carry on with a daily lives debating if we should send more person over there.

It is pretty obvious how I feel about sending more troops over to Afghanistan or Iraq. I feel that it was wonderful that we stood up for ourselves in the September 11th attacks and sent out troops over there to do some damage. What I don’t agree with was that after spending millions of dollar on the troops and the war, we decided to spend millions more on rebuilding what we destroyed.

Our window to do great goods in this war has long seen been closed. It is time to get out troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan because there really is nothing else that we can do. It is up to their nation to do whatever they want and that does not involve us.

Peace Prize

I found a post on the Power Line on Friday October 9, 2009 titled A Peace Prize for Hope. This post centered on President Barack Obama and how he just won the Nobel Peace Prize. By reading this post it is very clear that the author was not too happy about our President winning the prize. He states in the post “President Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize after only nine months on the job. It seems a tad premature…” The point of his blog was to enlighten the audiences on why he feels that President Barack Obama does not deserve that it. He makes it clear that it is not the President that he has a problem with but it is the person who picks the winner of the prize. The author feels that the “the Nobel Peace Prize has gone haywire on numerous occasions over many years.”

The author of this blog post is named Scott and that is pretty much all that I know about him from looking at this website. He writes for the Power Line and that is basically it. I read this post because I do feel that what the author provide enough evidence to me to consider this post legitimate.

Scott, the author focuses on several different years and the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize each of those years to help persuade the audience. With these sold fact that he provides it helps the creditability of his argument. He also provides a little background information about the winners to allow readers to judge for themselves if the winner’s action should be acknowledged and rewarded.

In all honestly I was not too happy about President Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize and that was because that I felt that the prize should go to someone else who has already made a solid impact on this world. And I would say that when I first heard about it I was somewhat upset that he even accepted it but now after reading this blog I feel differently. I mean anyone would want to accept the Nobel Peace Prize and the stack of cash that came with it. Now instead of being displease with the President, I am more disgusted with the person who picks the winner of the prize. I mean how did Yasser Arafat win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994?