I. Introduction
Thesis: Nation building is an important topic and by acknowledging, all the statistic’s, details, facts I believe it’s a failure in Iraq because it’s has a painful outcome and it has also affected our country economically and politically.
II. War has always had painful results for us people and has never been the solution for us.
1) Every time a country that goes for a war does not only spends money but the lives of a lot of people which is a depth that can never be paid off.
A) “USA has been involved in 13 major conflicts and dozens of minor ones resulting in 1.35 million military deaths” (Brooks)
2) War has never been the solution for anyone.
A) “War is no solution. At best, it’s a trade-off, substituting the problems it creates for the ones it …show more content…
National building has affected our economy financially and mentally
1. When we supported Iraq and adopted the National Building project we are the ones that are spending the money
A) “America has spent $53 billion trying to reconstruct Iraq, the largest development effort since the Marshall Plan” (Brooks)
B) Even after knowing that, “America has a national debt of more than $15 trillion due largely to unnecessary wars we have fought partly on the false jingoistic view that our way should be everyone's way.” (Ehrlich, 2)
2. We cannot deny the fact that we have to pay the dept and suffer financially not Iraq.
A) “Last summer we've spent 4,287 American, the Congressional Budget Office estimated the cost of the war at that date was about $709 billion. (Tristram)
IV. The National Building project has also political effects.
1. We cannot make a nation democratic
A) Francis Fukuyama, the ex-neocon, had now had advocated in his belated berating of the neocon catastrophe in Iraq: "[T]he United States does not get to decide when and where democracy comes about. By definition, outsiders can't 'impose' democracy on a country that doesn't want it; demand for democracy and reform must be domestic”
Thesis: Nation building is an important topic and by acknowledging, all the statistic’s, details, facts I believe it’s a failure in Iraq because it’s has a painful outcome and it has also affected our country economically and politically.
II. War has always had painful results for us people and has never been the solution for us.
1) Every time a country that goes for a war does not only spends money but the lives of a lot of people which is a depth that can never be paid off.
A) “USA has been involved in 13 major conflicts and dozens of minor ones resulting in 1.35 million military deaths” (Brooks)
2) War has never been the solution for anyone.
A) “War is no solution. At best, it’s a trade-off, substituting the problems it creates for the ones it …show more content…
National building has affected our economy financially and mentally
1. When we supported Iraq and adopted the National Building project we are the ones that are spending the money
A) “America has spent $53 billion trying to reconstruct Iraq, the largest development effort since the Marshall Plan” (Brooks)
B) Even after knowing that, “America has a national debt of more than $15 trillion due largely to unnecessary wars we have fought partly on the false jingoistic view that our way should be everyone's way.” (Ehrlich, 2)
2. We cannot deny the fact that we have to pay the dept and suffer financially not Iraq.
A) “Last summer we've spent 4,287 American, the Congressional Budget Office estimated the cost of the war at that date was about $709 billion. (Tristram)
IV. The National Building project has also political effects.
1. We cannot make a nation democratic
A) Francis Fukuyama, the ex-neocon, had now had advocated in his belated berating of the neocon catastrophe in Iraq: "[T]he United States does not get to decide when and where democracy comes about. By definition, outsiders can't 'impose' democracy on a country that doesn't want it; demand for democracy and reform must be domestic”