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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:

Domenic Treboni

Sidor American Studies

12-16-11 The Unites States has been involved in war with Afghanistan since 2001 after the terrorist attack of 9/11, and we still precede in Afghanistan today because we are ending the terrorist group of al-Qaida and their hide out of Afghanistan. While doing so we said that we would take control over the Taliban in Afghanistan and make them a democracy. Now we move on to the question, what should we do in Afghanistan? Because it has been a decade and we are still in Afghanistan. I believe that we should start to exit Afghanistan because we came to achieve our goals; we took down the al-Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden. By staying in Afghanistan and trying to help them from the Taliban, all we are doing is wasting our money and many lives. We are just a part of history that has tried to take over Afghanistan and help them gain stability and obviously no one has succeeded; now we are next on the list (Neuharth). We tried to help, but to be successful you have to put yourself before others and we are in major debt as a country and wasting our troops lives and time in Afghanistan when we don’t need to be there (Friedman). We could easily aid them if really necessary, where we don’t need to be there physically, but through our technology.

The United States had a just cause and right intentions for this war. Using the Just War Theory, we had a just cause, or reasoning to engage in this war and right intentions when going into this war. The just cause of this war was that the

Al-Qaida attacked our citizens in the attack of 9/11 and we wanted justice. Justice to take down the terrorist for revenge of our country and for those who died and were left injured. The United States had right intentions entering this war because we were planned to dismantle the terrorist group and stabilize Afghanistan, which is the right intentions even though we haven’t completed the task. This war falls under the category of a just war because of these characteristics.

In my view on what we should do in Afghanistan benefits the U.S greatly because getting out of there can save us an enormous amount of money and save the lives of our military. General John R. Allen believes that we should support Afghanistan, but he doesn’t support being there (Brunner). So a simple solution to that would be aiding them through our technology to keep them stable. Another example is the Veterans Of Foreign Wars (VFW) believes that we should leave A.S.A.P because they know what its like to be stationed in another country fighting and its risking their lives and returning how could help our economy regain its poise (Masters). Lastly the Afghan Minister of Mines, Wahidullah Shashrani says that they have billions of dollars worth of copper and gold deposits in four different parts of the country (Medich). If the country has billions of dollars worth of resources, why can’t they sell them for money instead of relying on use to aid them?

In my ideas of how we should proceed in Afghanistan, the Afghanis may be harmed, but it’s not positive that it could happen. This is why these ideas maybe argued against, but like I said earlier, to succeed you must put yourselves before others. The way it might harm Afghanis is if we leave and support them through technology, the Taliban could attack them once again, but we have held them off long enough and now our country is going into debt and we need to worry about us and our troops before we worry about them. For example Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan says that he wants us to stay for another decade (Mason). Now lets think about this logically, if we have been there for one decade and we are in debt already, staying there another decade would put us more in debt and more lives at risk. In one way that it could benefit the Afghanis, said by Farib Nawa saying that with the U.S being in Afghanistan we have just made things worse and they are getting worse (Van Winkle). Right there is a win-win situation, because by leaving we are in her opinion helping them and helping us.

In conclusion I believe that we should leave Afghanistan to save the lives of our troops, and stop spending our time and money there. This is the best for our country because like I’ve said many times before, to succeed you need to put yourself before others. With that we need to help our selves create stability before we help them.

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, evidence used--clear context established •develop a position or specific answer to the question that precisely states how the United States should proceed in Afghanistan, clearly 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, general claim not linked directly to criteria •use three Perspectives to support your explanation of why our involvement in the war benefits or harms Afghanis, three perspectives referenced •use three different Perspectives to support your explanation of why the war benefits or harms Americans three perspectives referenced •draw supporting information from the articles studied in class which are posted on Moodle, no 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. general 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 NOT done; internal citations have minor errors •edit language errors from writing, minor spelling, grammar and other language usage errors •post the essay on Student Recommendations done