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persuasive essay
ok, for language arts, i have to right a persuasive essay. My topic is america acting as the worlds police, why we shouldnt do this. I basically know what im going to write about, but i need a it of help. One thing ill be writing about are wars that it was unnessescary(sp?) for the U.S. to get involved in. Does anyone know what wars the U.S. was involved in that really didnt need to be involved in? like the original conflict didnt involve the U.S and we didnt get attacked or anything. I think vietnam is one of them....sorry its so long! ♥
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Honestly I'd say hit me up on AIM or MSN and we can chat, I'm a Political Science major with extensive debate background and a focus in International Relations Theory.
The reason I say this is because the question you're asking is a LOT more complex than you think.
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A good structed essay needs 5 paragraphs. The first an introduction, the middle 3 supporting reasons, and the last a conclusion. By picking multiple wars you will basically be repeating yourself over and over again. So just pick one of the useless wars to use as one of your reasons. Using Vietnam would be good. Describing how the outcome didn't even work to our atvantage and such. For another talk about the problems it has caused inside our country. Such as, the invasion of privacy on our telephones. Maybe also talk about the risk it puts our country in. Order the 3 reasons from least persuasive to most persuasive. I know this may not be exactly what you wanted but choosing a ton of wars to talk about it just repeating yourself.
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vietnam, world war I (we got in it firstly to stop germany from being asses for attacking our ships, but then we were protecting france and stuff.. WHICH wASNT OUR PROBLEM).. a couple more like the spanish-american war was just to get land from the philipines and cuba and stuff.., and of course.. tHE wAR GOIN ON NOW!! bush is an idiot for making our poor soldiers die over there for some other country... whatever.. but we are learning persuasive writing and the war thing right now! coincidence? lol well hope i helpeD! xoxo
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There is a fine line between necessary and unneeded. For instance. Alot of people (such as the columnist who answered before me) will argue that the war in Iraq is unneeded and uncalled for. But then some will argue it was, as the people were being oppressed and treated inhumanely (such as the exteme prejudice that befell the Kurds in northern Iraq in the 80's). And undecided people are left to wonder, do we just let people suffer, or do we risk our lives to help.
I will have to disagree with the below columnist on his view and forgive me for doing so, but allow me to voice what I want to say. Because we live in America and have we have all these nice things and whatnot, wouldn't you want to share it? Instead of keeping it to yourself and hoarding it. Also let me use a quote which I like very much to prove a point of why I believe this way.
"The only thing it takes for evil men to prosper is for good men to do nothing" - Edmund Burke.
What does this mean? It means that by allowing prejudice and persecution to exist, we are breaking a fundamental human right and as it says in the Bible "Help your neighboor and even those who persecute you, if he asks for your cloak, give him your cloak and tunic. If he asks for bread, give him both bread and water." (I don't remember the exact location of it, but I do know it is in the New Testament in one of the 4 gospels).
Therefore, the war in Iraq and the Vietnam war can't be considered "unnecessary" because both were aimed to release people from oppression and to spread the freedom we as americans enjoy now. Granted, a bit of the Vietnam War can be a result of the "Red Scare" that America expierenced during the Cold War. But the end result was our troops fighting and dying helping others.
I need to apologize for the length of this response, but I think it is necessary for you to realize most wars aren't "unnecessary". Yes warfare is not right, but given circumstances when we have the ability to go somewhere and help some people, then it does become necessary. America to my current knowledge, has not been involed in any wars where they were not threatened or went to war to protect the rights of people and freedom where they saw fit.
Also I wish to make a point about America acting as the world's "police". That is hardly the case. If it were true, we would be in alot more countries fighting alot more wars.
I have made my point and I hope you atleast read it to understand what I am trying to say. So I hope I helped.
-Ryan
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How about the one we're in right now?
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Well the war with Iraq was unnecessary. Sure they were treated badly but i think the president took it to the extreme. They were just helping the iraqs but to the expense of our people. I think the president was only thinking about hmself an dnot america. I think all wars were unnecassary because we think just because we live in america we have it all an dcan do what we want so we caused trouble which caused wars. Hope i helped lol.
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