The information this report has given me has helped me sort out arguments that make sense against the war along with the those that maybe don’t. Furthermore, it has helped me realize my personal place in the current events of the world as I become better able to identify my own concerns and questions to supplement my opinions.

Through this assignment, I was able to discover that there is an actual doctrine being executed during this war that seeks to tune the world to U.S. dominance in domestic and global policies. This is a point that most average-Joe war supporters (and dissenters, for that matter) won’t ever come across in anybody’s justification for this war. The current administration is feeding on an attitude of “American exceptionalism,” and since so many successes have been had to escape the era of containment, September 11th had no trouble playing the role of a catalyst to bring rollback policies to full realization without anybody to really stop the U.S. Before this assignment, I was able to say that I disagreed with a pre-emptive war, but now I can reason why this move is particularly dangerous for the U.S. in the precedents it sets in the global community. I very much dislike the idea of “conditional sovereignty” for any nation that was introduced in a question posed near the end of Charlie Bright’s lecture, as I have a lot of personal indigence at the undermining of sovereignty the U.S. has conducted in the course of its history while exerting its own.

The backdrop of affairs that the September 11th attacks was presented against made it easy for a magical shift of attention back to Iraq following the military action in Afghanistan. By some force that I’m willing to attribute to the tendency of Americans to view the Middle East as homogenous in any degree despite the ongoing conflicts that make it readily apparent that it is not, roughly 50% of Americans in 2002 believe on faith alone that Sadaam Hussein was responsible for any part of the attacks. Whether the Bush administration designed this public opinion somehow, or whether it just got lucky, it now had a anti-Iraq sentiment ready to fuel a doctrine that had been in relative incubation for a number of years.

The Bush administration and its supporters believe they have the right to decide unilaterally who needs punishment. I disagree that they are in the best position to determine world justice, or in the best position to determine who is dangerous. Susan Wright’s lecture following the history of making Iraq a rogue state was very useful. My Iraq history has been mostly my mem

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