The enemy of my enemy is my friend

Mailer





WARNING!!: I had serious writers block on this assignment, but I did my best. Sorry i did not end it well. I couldn't think of a good ending.


The question, "Why are we at War?", is a very good question to ask during modern day society. The book, "Why are we at War?", is unlike any book i have read or seen, as a matter of fact. It written as part conversion between Mailer and Mr. Dotson Rader and part as an actually book is written. Although, I did not agree with all the points Mailer discussed in his book, he did bring up some good point, however. Any one who has or had a chance to read this book, can tell that he has passion for not only September 11th, but for politics as well.
One of the many points that he wrote about, that i agree'd with was when he talked about Saddam Hussein strung out the weapons inspection between 1991-1998. Im sure we can all agree that Saddam is right up there with Adolf Hitler on a list of the worlds most hated men. I mean, after all, Saddam did murder tens of thousands of his fellow Iraqi people. Mailer stated that Saddam had the idea that if we, as in the United States, Great Britain, etc., let him string out the inspections, in return, he would not sell his nuclear weapons and ideas to Osama Binladen. I feel like either way, if had been given the oppertunity, Saddam would have sold his nuclear weapons and secerts in return for a hefty price. As i stated earlier, Saddam killed his own people, so what is it to him, if he sells a couple of a nuclear weapons here and there.
The view he discussed about how President Bush was trying to turn the United States into a "Empire", Im going to have to agree and disagree with that. At the beginning of this war, I believed we were doing the right thing, and i still do to this day but how can you not help that Bush is getting a little "war happy", if thats the word for it. I do believe, that with the recently developments with Iran and North Korea, Bush is willing to strectch our resources and go to war with country worth fighting. I don't believe, however, that Bush is trying to take over the world and turn us into a "Empire". I don't believe that is even remotely possible to do, being that a president is only office for four to eight years.
Mailer raised a good question in his book, though. He asked, "Why do Muslims hate us?". Some of the possible answers he gave was that he could be over envy, or even how they were raised. If you watch the news you can see radical Muslim parents raising their children to hate us, even when the children really don't have a reason to hate us at all. I have heard that people who practice true Islamic faith and not the radical form of it, are taught not to hate, just a like a person of Christain faith is taught. .