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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? ** 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

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What started out as revenge for the bombings in 9/11 transformed into an all out war keeping the Taliban out of Afghanistan. We are not just fighting a war in Afghanistan, we are fighting a war for Afghanistan. The whole reason we are putting in so much effort in Afghanistan is because we want Afghanis to have a future. People who think we should pack up our bags and get out of Afghanistan A.S.A.P anger me the most, we have put forth way too much energy for this war to watch it crumble. Why leave when we have put soldiers and money on the line, if we leave now all of our efforts will be futile. This is why we must stay until our mission is a success.=====

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We had the right intentions for getting ourselves in this war; we are there to protect the lives of innocent Afghans from the clutches of the Taliban. We most fight against them because if no one does than they can do whatever they please. We have been way past negotiating with the Taliban for a long time. Military was a necessity because we can’t simply ask the Taliban to leave and they’ll do it. As long as we have military in Afghanistan the Taliban won’t try to invade.=====

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I support the many people who believe that we should stay in Afghanistan with minimal troops so that we can insure that we won’t loss Afghanistan. Leon Panetta, secretary of Defense believes that we can draw down our troops because we have made a great amount of progress in Afghanistan. "Thanks to the progress we have made, we can draw down our forces while building a long-term enduring relationship with the Afghan people" (defense.gov). (From Mitchells Perspective project) Since he has such a credible opinion I believe that we can still hold Afghanistan while we bring troops back home, which is a win, win. If we pull out all of our military the war will go back to square one. Vali Nasr former senior adviser to the special representative for Afghanistan thinks, “Afghan population is now [not] very worried that Taliban are surging” (Michel M). If the Taliban aren’t controlling Afghanistan than the population will be happy. Hamid Karzai, president of Afghanistan really appreciates the help he is getting from the U.S. He wants the best for his people and said in Bonn Germany he said "We will need your steadfast support for at least another decade" (Nordland). Since the President of Afghanistan wants us to stay in their country than we must be making the Afghanis happy. All these perspectives have extraordinary credibility and believe we should continue to stay in Afghanistan.=====

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Americans may not be benefitted by their money but there is a larger picture here. You have to remember that your tax dollars are going to your safety. We don’t want the Taliban to regain power and commit another attack on our country. We need to make this war as quick as possible so we can stop spending so much money on the war. Many people think the sooner we get out the better, but I think that if we be patient enough we can get out of the war with Afghanistan’s government secure as well as our economy.=====

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Our efforts in the war in Afghanistan have helped Afghanis still hope on a better future. According to NYT 60 percent of Afghans now have cell phones (Nordland). Afghan girls who couldn’t go to school can now attend do to our hard efforts. German Minister Guido Westerwelle said "A stable and peaceful Afghanistan which does not pose a threat to the world is in the interest of all of us." (Westerwelle). Is long as we a determined and keep on fighting this will become a reality.=====


 * Works Cited:**

"Top Civilian and Military Leaders." //Defense.Gov//. U.S. Department of Defense, n.d. Web. 8 Dec. 2011. <[|http://www.defense.gov]>. M, Michael. "Vali Nasr." //Think Tanks/ Academia//. 2011. //BuchholtzSidorAmericanStudies//. Web. 13 Dec. 2011.

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

Nordland, Rod, and Steven Lee Myers. "Afghanistan's Karzai asks for support until 2024." //SFGate//. N.p., 6 Dec. 2011. Web. 8 Dec. 2011. <[|http://www.sfgate.com/]

Press, Associated. "U.S., Others Vow Support For Afghanistan Post-Troops." //NPR//. Dick Meyer, 5 Dec. 2011. Web. 15 Dec. 2011. <http://www.npr.org>.

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, clearly done

•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, clearly done

•use three Perspectives to support your explanation of why our involvement in the war benefits or harms Afghanis, all three clearly done

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

•draw supporting information from the articles studied in class which are posted on Moodle, three article cited

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

•organize your ideas in extended power paragraphs, competently done

•establish the credibility of sources, most sources credited

•cite sources internally and in a Works Cited, most sources cited correctly internally; Works Cited is correct

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

•post the essay on Student Recommendations done