Mailer 2
One of the main reasons Mailer suggest that we are trying to become an empire is to control oil. If we can control oil, we can basically control the rest of the world. Oil is something almost every known country in the world needs or wants. If we can control the region, which would be the Middle East, that exports and imports the most oil out of any other country in the world, then we basically have the world by the balls. The United States currently consumes 19.5 million barrels, or 26% of daily global oil consumption. The U.S. has to import 9.8 million barrels a day, or more than half the oil we, as in the U.S., actually consume. The surest way for the U.S. to sustain its overwhelming dependence upon oil is to control the sixty-seven percent of the world’s oil proven oil reserves that lie below the sands of the Persian Gulf (56).
I must say that I agree with Mailer that Bush is trying to make American become some super Empire. I must disagree with Mailer, however, when he said that war is in the American mythology. In all of the past wars, I felt like we always had a reason to go to war. Now don’t get me wrong, I believe we have every right to be at war now, but I do feel we are in the wrong place. Anybody who happens to watch the news regularly, can plainly see that we all the stuff going on the in the world, we are actually on our way to becoming an Empire and we starting with the Middle East. That goes back to what I was saying earlier, The Middle East has oil and we want it bad. If we can control there oil then we have oil to power to cars, machines, tanks, airplanes, ships, etc. This will ultimately give us the power to take over the rest of the world.
Mailer said that most Americans, especially the flag conservatives, love war. I disagree with that. I would say that I am a flag conservative, and will say that I do feel that war is necessary sometimes; I do not love it by any means. If you disagree with what I said that Is fine, everybody is entitled to there own opinions but we really should open our eyes as to what is happening around us.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
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. .
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. .
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