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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? ** 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

In Afghanistan, as in the United States are trying to boost Afghanistan's economy and help them not become a failed state. We are also doing this because we dont want to have any complications with Afghanistan and we dont want the Taliban which is an Islamic extremist organization to take over Afghanistan because they would end up building a whole dictator ship country that would be very powerful and it would become our number one enemy in the world. The U.S. is planning on moving out of Afghanistan soon but the Afghans dont think that will be possible. My first argument on why we should leave Afghanstan is that we have spent over 440 billion dollars in their country and it has gotten to a point where 1 in every 4 dollars that is put torward their country is wasted (Blimes and Stiglitz). Afghanistan has unreachable and unreasonable goals for the U.S. to do, it is going to end up wasting all of our money and it is not going to help them in any good way (Kissinger). This meaning that the U.S. is running out of money, we are in debt because of them and if we leave we will beable to try and gain our money back overtime instead of wasting everything on their pretty much failed country.

My second argument is that the Taliban is trying to constantly trying to capture the country of the Afghanistan which makes the U.S. the number one target for the Taliban. This is credible because the Taliban performed multiple terrorist accounts against the U.S. on 9/11 especially and on multiple other times. Even the Afghanistan people would rather have the Taliban take over because the woman Fariba Narra says it has affect not only her familys but others too. The U.S. has affect their families because they perform random night raids that they dont like, so it makes perfect sense for us to just leave and everyone would be satisfied and the Afghans wouldnt have to fear for their personal saftey (Bunting).

My third argument is that we are practically running two expensive countries. Meaning we are 2/3s of Afghanistans finacial support, which is extremly high for what our own country is going through and we should pay more attention our own country instead of theirs. The U.S. thankfully is trying to pull out but the Afghanistanies are not allowing it, we are going to try to have 90% of our aid be gone by 2018 but the Afghans are saying it will be longer. Also we are giving the Afghans to much money at once they said, they said they need the money in smaller portions and more frequently because they dont know what to do with the money in the large portions so they end up wasting it (Lee). This is why we should not proceed in Afghanistan because it is going in the wrong direction. If we continue to stay in Afghanistan our time and money will be wasted on nothing if they are going to become a failed state anyway and the Taliban is going to eventually take over either now or when we officially pull out of their country, so might as well do it now and it will save our countrys economy from failing because of them. I strongly advise that we move out of Afghanistan because all of our effort is going to waste and Afghanistan is not trying to help us back in using the money we give them correctly.

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, incompletely done •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, Not done •use three Perspectives to support your explanation of why our involvement in the war benefits or harms Afghanis, perspectives referenced •use three different Perspectives to support your explanation of why the war benefits or harms Americans a 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. summary made • organize your ideas in extended power paragraphs, inconsistently used, evidence should be used to develop your ideas; then followed by a sentence explaining how the evidence give the thesis authority •establish the credibility of sources, not all sources credited •cite sources internally and in a Works Cited, minor errors in both; WC is not alphabetical, truncate web address after .com •edit language errors from writing, some spelling, grammar and other language usage errors •post the essay on Student Recommendations done

VanWinkle, Katie. "Fariba Nawa." //Wikispaces//. Sidor/ Buchholtz, n.d. Web. 12 Dec. 2011. <http://buchholtzsidoramericanstudies.wikispaces.com>.

Bunting, Madeleine. "The Afghan War and the Myth of Women's Rights." //The Hindu//. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Dec. 2011. <[|http://www.thehindu.com]>.

Lee, Barbara. “Another way to bring the troops home from Afghanistan .” //CREDOaction//. CREDOaction, n.d. Web. 13 Dec. 2011. <[|http://act.credoaction.com]>.

N, Mitch. "Leon Panetta." //U.S Government: Executive and Legislative//. 2011. //BuchholtzSidorAmericanStudies//. Web. 13 Dec. 2011.

Furey, Blaine. "Veterans for Rethinking Afghanistan." Perspective Assignment. wikispaces BuchholtzSidorAmericanStudies. 12 Dec. 2011

Inderfurth, Karl F, and Theodore Eliot Jr. "Afghans in Transition." //The New York// //Times//. N.p., 14 Nov. 2011. Web. 15 Dec. 2011. <[] afghans-in-transition.html?_r=1>.