I've posted this comment a bit late (my apologies) but one of your fellow students has questions about the wisom of the surge. Can you help out?
It was brought to my attention that the President, George Bush, is proposing a bill to send 21,500 more United States troops to the war zone in Iraq. I disagree with the passing of this bill. Is sending that many more troops over there just another one of Bush’s ways of attempting to comfort Americans and soothe their fears of this war or does he actually think that this may help us to further ourselves and win this war. The war in Iraq has been in effect for about four years now and still it seems that we have gotten pretty much no where. It doesn’t seem to make much sense to send over thousands more of our young America to something that seems to consistently only be ending the deaths of many young Americans.
The very unpopular war has led to the deaths of over three thousand United States troops and is blamed for the “GOP losses in the November 7th elections that handed control of Congress to the Democrats.” The Senate’s debate on the new resolution by the President is set to begin next week. The House floor debate is set for February 12th, 2007.
It is just so hard for me to agree to send over more and more troops when it seems like all we are getting out of this war so far is a higher death toll. What needs to be decided is whether sending over more troops will help America to advance in the war or whether it is our lack of a sufficient strategy in the war. Is our sole purpose and strategy to simply outnumber the enemy, or will it honestly help us in the war against Iraq?
It just seems that more and more everyday we are slowly losing the war in Iraq and that we keep on losing the lives of those brave enough to go out there and fight for their country. I do not have much of a background on the war in Iraq and the dispersion of troops, but in my mind I just cannot fathom the idea of throwing thousands of more troops in the fire like that. It seems that what the President should do is go in and in a round-about way observe, if at all possible, and then hold a meeting of some sort discussing what was observed and if in fact sending in more troops to Iraq is the answer to our problems.
Also by sending such a significant amount, could this possibly “clutter” the war zone and cause more of a problem than it would be actually solving the solution? Is George Bush solely sending the troops over to solidify continuous funding for the war and the troops? I guess my main question is asking whether or not George Bush does in fact have the best interest of our troops at heart and not just money and priorities first?
