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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? **

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Afghanistan is a nation, hardly at that, that is struggling. Every day it struggles with war. War, which involves the lives of its very own people. People that don’t have a rhyme or reason to care for fighting, yet they are drawn into because of the chaotic state that Afghanistan is in. The Government is a very fragile, unstable, unsupported, poorly upheld regime full of corruption. The presence of the U.S. is welcomed by some and opposed by others. Mostly opposed. I say we stay in Afghanistan, not only stay but totally and completely eliminate the Taliban. They attacked us, and killed many Americans, many people say we have the right to just carpet bomb the crap out of them. We have wasted too many American lives and money to just leave now and send it to hell. Our whole operation there would have been an embarrassment if we were to leave now. We need to maintain what we have and then some, we need to take over the whole country in order for them to maintain anything. I say screw them though, because these people wouldn’t lift a finger for us. We should just take everything there that would benefit us, and we could if we had the interest to do so. Inappropriate language used in this paragraph. Please maintain academic voice.

I believe as of right now, our occupation in Afghanistan is a just war. If it were to go in a direction that made us look like we were trying to gain material items for our own gain, then it wouldn’t be just but as of now, it is. We are there to maintain a peace because without us it would be total chaos with the Taliban running rampid, it would be a free for all. In a way we are also there to protect the neighboring countries, without us the Taliban would attack its neighbors for their own good, one being the Iraqi President, Jalal Talabani. Without the U.S. presence the whole world would be at stake.

Pakistan’s president, Asif Ali Zarari states that he would like a safe gradual exit from Afghanistan to ensure optimal safety and that he is scared for his life because the Taliban killed his wife. General John R. Allen wants to stay in Afghanistan until it can protect itself, he believes more problems will develop in the future and this will take till at least 2014.The prime minister of the United kingdom would like nothing more than progress in Afghanistan, as long as it takes he just wants progress, he is willing to spend money.

The support groups in Afghanistan have started to leave, and without a signing of a new contract all the support groups will leave, which will mean more starving Afghanis will die. Afghanistan also needs the U.S. for security needs, for at least another decade.

Again I think Afghanistan will crumble without the U.S. and that they won’t be stable in at least my lifetime. They don’t seem to care about restabilizing, all they want is personal gain, they don’t want to work together and it will be very hard to 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, no evidence used--inappropriate language used •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, one perspective listed •use three different Perspectives to support your explanation of why the war benefits or harms Americans three perspectives listed •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, many paragraphs offer no evidence •establish the credibility of sources, a few sources credited •cite sources internally and in a Works Cited, NOT done •edit language errors from writing, minor spelling, grammar and other language usage errors •post the essay on Student Recommendations done