Precarious Life I.

The picture that has been painted in the United States about Muslims is not a good one. From my understanding, the true faith does not consist of violent killing of innocent people. I think more people in the US and around the world would come forward and speak to this, but with the current world climate, there is a lot of fear of retaliation of the real terrorists. You notice that when some incident occurs, Muslims groups will gather to talk about it; and someone usually states that the type of violence that occurred is not what people of their faith participate in. Being Muslim does not mean you are a terrorist. This image of Muslims has fueled the fire in the eyes of the US public, to help get them on board to accept that we needed to go to war.
The view of what the US does in the war could possibly be skewed. We only see what the press puts out, which is sometimes engineered by politics. We needed the public on board to continue their war support. (pg 6) The United States is a big world power. We tend to take the lead in most issues, especially if we directly involved. We tend to be very persuasive when need the assistance of other countries to back what ever it is we feel needs to happen. This works out fine, unless it is for something that mostly benefits us. The reason for going to war was an example of getting everyone’s backing under false pretenses, for our own agenda. (pg 7,14) Don’t get me wrong the US is a great and wonderful country to live in; I would not choose any other as my permanent residence. We do a lot of good, and are capable of doing more, so it is important that more of us get involved in the political process in our country. I think the US in some ways helped to create Bin Laden we see today; he once had a previous affiliation with the CIA. (pg10) Guiliani could not possibly have taken the money of the very rich Arab prince. I don’t think the US government would have allowed him to accept it; even if he were considering it, because it would have sent a message to the American public that would be contrary to the existing program for war that had already set in place.
Being such a large world power, we are in a position to do a lot more good for the entire world. We are involved in many worldwide efforts that provide a great deal of help for others. In a perfect world, in the instance of terrorism, it would be optimal if we could as a world, all start over again, and fix where it all went wrong.