Eng 1010 - Genocide - a Logical End

Derek Jones

S B Tyler

ENGL1010-072

29 September 2010

A Logical End

The war in Afghanistan has been a long and violent one. In the 9 years this war the public opinion on it has changed. At first a good portion of people were in favor of the war. Then within these past 9 years that support has become less prevalent. Now American citizens are divided. One side wants for the Troops to stay in Afghanistan to finish the job. The other a side wants the troops to leave Afghanistan right now, so that everyone can focus on the problems back in the states. The public opinion on the war has changed over the years. People can better understand this better by looking at the events that have caused this change in opinion. Once this happens they can then understand that there is still a very logical way to fix this situation that everyone can be happy with. Then people must make a logical change in the way the situation is progressing. From there one can come up with some logical effects from that change.

Many Americans can recall the events on the day of September, 11 2001. Terrorist high jacked 4 commercial planes and crashed two into the world trade center. One would hit and damage part of the pentagon. While another crash landed in a rural area of Pennsylvania. It was truly one of the darkest days in American history. This was figuratively and realistically true for the people in New York City. The attacks had caused the towers to fall and a giant cloud of ash covered the city. In the wake of these attacks the country came to a standstill and for days the American people experienced shell shock. Once the ordeal was over the American people came together and helped the the victims families. A true sense of patriotism had swept the country as well.

When the U.S government decide American would go into Afghanistan to bring down the Taliban regime and capture the leader of Al Qaida Osama bin Laden the American people were thrilled. The events of 9/11 spurred many to join the military so that they could fight for America's freedom. This meant that the U.S troops would have a lot of motivation for the mission they were about to undertake. This seemingly never ending support for the troops and the war the American people had would appear to endure even through the early months of the war. Those were the days when the news stations would tell the American public that that day was more violent for U.S troops than the last day. Even through those hard times of the war the American people stayed loyal. . In a short amount of time the U.S troops appeared to have accomplished what they had set out to do. They had defeated the Taliban and freed the Afghan people from their reign. Osama bin Laden had also been forced out of the s Afghanistan and has fled to the Afghanistan Pakistan border. Things were going good until the U.S went to war with Iraq.

The U.S going to war with Iraq changed things. The troops In Afghanistan who had been the center of every U.S civilians mind for 2 whole years had become secondary thoughts. The War in Iraq and the young men and women who would be deployed there had then captured the minds of the nation. In the 7 years the war in Iraq was occurring it seemed as though everyone had forgotten about the troops in Afghanistan. Both the American people and government are guilty of this. This is because in the time the Iraq war started a lot of money, equipment and soldiers were being sent to Iraq and not Afghanistan. This would last for 7 years, and in those 7 years the Taliban slowly began to rise up again. Apparently while everyone was focused on Afghanistan the Taliban experienced resurgence in power and influence. Not only had they begun to push back U.S troops they had also began to gain back some of the influence they had in Afghanistan. The generals on the ground called for more help but