Week 2 – Blog 1

 As I was reading through the news the other day I came across an article called “What Iraq tells us About Obstacles.”  I read it and was amazed at how the author said that it is sown into Americans cultural DNA that we believe that when we say that all men are created equal that behind all native, culture and traditions, that everyone is held to be the same.  The author told how Americans try to bring the world into a unified and globalization progress.  I’d like to quote Patrick long Jr. “To be blunt, our foreign policy tends to be predicated on the idea that everyone wants to be an American.  In the months leading up to the start of the Iraqi war it was common to how seemingly educated people say that Arabs, particularly Iraqis, had no way of life worth saving and would be better off if all ‘that old stuff’ – meaning their traditions, social institutions, and values – were done away with.”  Our leaders did not believe that and felt that they could help the Iraqi people.  The article portrays our leaders as navigators showing the way to a bright future, basically through our own culture.  I have the idea of why not help this country.  Through past projects I have done on Iraq I found Saddam Hussein to be an evil man.  There was the Halabja gas attack that killed thousands of innocent people in his own country, not to mention Saddam’s secret police carrying out orders by committing murders, tortures, and using chemical weapons on his own people that violated the Human Rights Act.  I personally believe that Saddam Hussein’s death was justifiable.  To me the Iraqi people, including friends I know who are Iraqi, needed help from this evil dictator.  Through my eyes I feel that we are not just expanding democracy on the country, but helping the Iraqi people from being under the dictatorship of evil tyrant.

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