Iran–Iraq War

In George Bush’s, “Address to the Nation on 9/11” speech, he prompts citizens of America to listen to what he has to say. Given that 9/11 was a very disturbing time for the nation, Bush provides assurance that America’s future is strong, and nothing can disrupt this power. Bush attempts to inform people in various countries that the potential of the United States is not affected after such devastating events by means of figurative language, metonymy, and repetition devices. A very influential…

Would you like to know what's stopping millions of americans from losing their lives? Or who puts an end to the plots? Well the gruesome truth is that what's stopping these attacks is torture. Torture is defined by, to inflict severe pain on, what hundreds of people believe, is doing what's necessary to save lives. Many people disagree with the thought of torture and believe it's inhumane and unconstitutional, but the reality is that it is what’s preventing another severe attack like 9/11. The…

In May 2003, I was a Staff Sergeant serving as a squad leader in a Military Police Company. We deployed to Baghdad Iraq in support of combat operations; I led a squad of 12 Soldiers. My squad’s primary mission was conducting mounted and dismounted patrols in a neighborhood called Al-Dura in the southern part of Baghdad. Soon after arriving in country and receiving our mission, all squad leaders reported to the Battalion Headquarters for introductions and assigning of interpreters to our…

police officers all struggle to fight against the war on terrorism. However many believe that the country is not actually at war and that civil liberties groups go too far in trying to restrict individual rights. This eventually could lead to another problem and cause a war within the people of the United States. People state that the war on terror is the same as to other wars when rights have been restricted, which is not entirely false. The war on terror could cause certain rights to be…

It was peaceful day at the White House, everyone was happy, the birds were singing, the lunch bell was ringing and nobody cared about a thing in the world. The president of the United States of America, Barack Obama was sitting in the oval office waiting for a phone call from the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin. While waiting for the phone call from Vladimir Putin, Obama was working to legalize marijuana in the US. Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United…

Tarnishing the Name of Islam In the past few years, ISIS or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has been growing into the public eye, whether it be on social media or in the news. The notorious terrorist group, calls itself an Islamic Caliphate and is steadily gaining more and more control of the Middle East. Bombings, beheadings, and massacres have built up the Islamic State’s notorious reputation. With every public execution, a growing group of people have been starting to associate all…

comparative events in US history. The Abu Ghraib Torture and Prison Abuse was a series of human rights violations against prisoners in Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq, which began in March of 2003. The Bataan Death March was the relocation by foot of American Prisoners from the Bataan Peninsula to Camp O, Donnel a prisoner camp of the Japanese during World War 2. While both Abu Ghraib and The Bataan Death March are a result of poor training and leadership, Abu Ghraib was more of the morale…

a more diverse military than today. During the Vietnam War, only 25% of service members were draftees (compared with 66% of WWII service members), but almost one in ten members of that generation were veterans. This leads to a group of civilians who is much more likely to interact with veterans on a day-to-day basis. There are two generations between those who have served in the Vietnam War and those who are joining the military during the War on Terrorism. The end of the draft might be…

The four different types of presidential foreign policy, which are known as the Hamiltonian, Wilsonian, Jeffersonian, and Jacksonian, can be found in Jonathan Haidt’s book called The Righteous Mind. Four presidents’ are used to classify the foreign policy strategy of the past and future presidents of the United States. These classifications of policy assist in the understanding in the way that the president will shape the world that would benefit American ideologies domestically and in the…

As a nation, our citizens are learning less from newspaper articles and radio programs and more from television and the internet. Media influence has become more prominent in our nation in the last ten years than ever before. The media has sufficiently made an impact on the increasingly liberal views in our country even when news sources have been accused of leaning to the left or right of the political spectrum when reporting the news; FOX News and MSNBC are infamous for showing conservative…