| Submitted by: | tolyj007 |
| Date: | 11 / 22 / 2008 |
| Category: | US History |
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Anatoly Karoll Professor: Michael O’Brien Essay: Why we fight Date: 11-07-2008 Why we fight Why do we fight? Why do we try so hard to get what we want in which can result taking someone else’s life? Is what we fight for half the time worth fighting for? Do we fight for freedom or simply because we don’t get along with each other? Everyone seems to come up with their version and with that comes disjointed communication. Our forefathers who lied out the laws and rules to delineate upon the common wealth of the nation, nullified that we must protect and preserve our nation as well as to protect ourselves from harm and despair from other countries. It is so tempted to just go in and fight before stepping back and examining the possibilities on what caused us to get into this heated situation. Americans feel that when their cores and values are stripped away, they must retaliate just to make their point. In Eugene Jarecki’s film he shows us how much we’ve as a nation gone from battles to wars to transferring power from one president to another to enforcing laws and regulating polices. During the movie Eugene interviewed random people and asked them “Why do we fight and for what it stands for.” Many Americans said that we fight for freedom, for liberty, for peace, to seek control, to protect our nation from others, to restore confidence back into the American lives. This well documented movie largely focuses and fabric of the democracy whom the people fight for. When Americans are threatening by other nations they have a tendency to jump in and attack instead of examining and collecting all the right sources. For instance, when 9/11 occurred Americans automatically jumped in their tanks and declared war with Iraq. Most often we jump to conclusion why before we garnered all the appropriate information. Once we put ourselves in a quagmire we ask ourselves could we have done this or that differently? Throughout the movie, why we fight, it talked about wars and...
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