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Home Small Wars Project Perspectives on Afganistan Midterm Assignment Student Recommendations - Position Essays

TASK II: Write and Post a POSITION ESSAY to the wiki. Due Thursday, December 15th. Write an essay that advances a well-supported position on the question below and post it on: Student Recommendations wiki **How should the United States proceed in Afghanistan? ** The United States are in Afghanistan to protect the civilians from the Taliban taking over a unstable country that already has enough problems. The United States being in Afghanistan benefits them because we give them military and financial aid. Karzai the President of Afghanistan says they will need the US in their country for another decade to provide aid for them ( Myers and Norland of the NyTimes) In the article "With General Fired, Bring Troops Home," by Al Neuharth, Neuharth says, we are giving Afghani's 100 billion dollars a month to help them with out with the Taliban. It's costing us a lot of money to be here. But if we were to get out Hashim Mayar, a special adviser to the Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief says,“There is a fear that all this could be cut and Afghanistan could be left alone as it was in the ’90s, which will have very bad consequences this time,” This is why the people of Afghanistan don't want us to leave. However it is harming us Americans more than benefiting us and lot of people think we should leave. In the article "How to Exit...the war" by Henry Kissinger he says, 70% of Americans agree we should withdraw in Afghanistan." The majority of the people in the United States think we should leave and Obama tends to do what the society thinks. Also in "Bring the Troops Home," Barbara Lee says, "Afghans are showing improvement, 87% says this is true."The war with Afghanistan has also been one of our longest wars and its been costing us a ton of money.because we have been there for so long. In the article, Americas Costly War Machine by Linda Blimes and Joseph Stiglitz, they say that, Every 1 and 4 dollars is spent in Afghanistan." So much money is being spent there and we have our own econmic problems back in our own country. This is how the war benefits the Afghans but hurts the Americans. This war is a just war because we are supplying protection for the people of Afghanistan also they have been causing the United States problems. The Afghani's attacked us first so that gives us a right to go there and protect ourselves from this group of people. Also the Taliban is causing problems for the Government in Afghanistan which is threatening countries near by. This is why this war is just

I believe that the U.S. should try to leave Afghanistan as soon as they can, but until Afghanistan is able to handle themselves on their own.

A quality will essay will

•open by setting up a context for the question--briefly explain why the unites States is fighting a war in Afghanistan, little context offered

•develop a position or specific answer to the question that precisely states how the United States should proceed in Afghanistan, done

•use two criteria of the Just War Theory to analyze to what extent the U.S.'s involvement in Afghanistan is a Just War, no reference to criteria

•use three Perspectives to support your explanation of why our involvement in the war benefits or harms Afghanis, no perspectives referenced

•use three different Perspectives to support your explanation of why the war benefits or harms Americans no perspectives referenced

•draw supporting information from the articles studied in class which are posted on Moodle, some articles referenced

•wrap up the essay by restating the key reasons why your position is the best way for the U.S. to proceed in Afghanistan. one sentence summary made

• organize your ideas in extended power paragraphs, inconsistently done, a few paragraphs offer no evidence

•establish the credibility of sources, a few sources credited

•cite sources internally and in a Works Cited, WC and internal citations not done

•edit language errors from writing, spelling, grammar and other language usage errors

•post the essay on Student Recommendations done

Position Essay RUBRIC: A quality will essay will •open by setting up a context for the question--briefly explain why the unites States is fighting a war in Afghanistan, •develop a position or specific answer to the question that precisely states how the United States should proceed in Afghanistan, •use two criteria of the Just War Theory to analyze to what extent the U.S.'s involvement in Afghanistan is a Just War, •use three Perspectives to support your explanation of why our involvement in the war benefits or harms AFGHANIS, •use three different Perspectives to support your explanation of why the war benefits or harms AMERICANS, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">•draw supporting information from the articles studied in class which are posted on Moodle, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">•wrap up the essay by restating the key reasons why your position is the best way for the U.S. to proceed in Afghanistan. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">•organize your ideas in extended power paragraphs, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">•establish the credibility of sources, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">•cite sources internally and in a Works Cited, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">•edit language errors from writing, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">•post the essay on <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Student Recommendations