After leaving class, I hod to collect my thoughts and think about how to formulate a response. One thing that I feel is that forcing a belief, no matter western or anything, is not the place for US. If you look into the United States history, our last few wars have been over spreading our beliefs into another culture, therefore affecting their traditions. The current war in Iraq, i don't need to make an argument saying that this war has not been a victory, because it has not been. We are fighting a different culture and trying to change their traditions in order to match ours. The Vietnam war: USA vs. Communism. WWII is a wash because it was us protecting human rights. Persian Gulf was us defending another country after an invasion, and for oil. For these reasons I am not in support of the United States affecting another countries traditions. Correct me if I am wrong, but religious extremists in the Middle East resent the United States', and the rest of the west, involvement in their society. I don't want people around the world to be killed innocently because we changed their culture. Women's education is a great cause, but I feel protection of our people matters as well.
P.S. I'm sure this will generate some heat, bring it baby
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Check this out: women's rights in Iraq were actually much better BEFORE the US started monkeying around in the Middle East (http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/wrd/iraq-women.htm). So...do we have an obligation to fix what we helped to break?
i just have a clarifying question first...when you say "i feel protection of our people matters as well", is that referring to the fact that if we get involved in other countries cultures, people in the US are at being put at risk?
I dont quite understand that besides the rising presence of terrorism which albeit is a serious threat but maybe not always linked to providing women with education.
and what if this problem of illiteracy and not enough access is tackled from within the country itself? i absolutely oppose the notion of the US as a 'world police' but extra support for the UN and the UDHR might be a start in terms of trying to lead by example, and lead within the more neutral international political venues. so maybe what im getting at here is not to use the word force to often, but rather consider encourage, and remind, and aid, and get other countries to back us up. this does seem a bit more...for lack of a better term, wishy-washy, but could still help without being at risk for causing some kind of political/terrorist/endangering international eruption directed at the US.
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