Resolved that The United Federal government should establish a Foreign policy significantly limiting the use of weapons of mass destruction Intro- "One can say it's easy to walk away from this, to lose hope. But we cannot walk away. We must not walk away. And we will not lose hope.''- Colin ...

One day I was on my way to school when I read a bumper sticker that read, "FLUSH THE JOHNS." Of course, this sticker was referring to John Kerry. While this bumper sticker is humorous in manner, it has a very adamant symbolic importance. While John Kerry was in Vietnam, he committed s...

War has always been horrible. In WWII, civilians were targets as part of bombing campaigns. Now, not only were the soldiers experiencing the horror of war but the civilians too now involved. This continued throughout the various wars like the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, the War Of Terrorism and now t...

The current role of mass media in American politics has definitely played a significant role in how Americans view and react to certain events and issues of the nation. Newspapers, magazines, television, and radio are some of the ways information is passed onto many of the United States' citizens....

There are no excuses for what some of our soliders have done; a life is a life no matter who these people are. I ponder. The circumstances leading up the Iraqi war were are unexcusable, but as Americans we are suppose to be more dignified. What comes to mind are the natives in a colony who run...

Picture yourself rolling through the streets of Baghdad in an armored personnel vehicle, when an adversary pops out of the shadows with a rocket launcher. You are dead in his sights, and you suddenly remember that your vehicle lacks much of the armor it is supposed to have, and your bulletproof vest...

George Washington was wise beyond his years. He warned the country of political parties and also he warned us of making alliances. The United States is more divided today than it has been in the past. People are not only expressing their favor for one candidate but they are getting angry with peop...

There was no post-war planning in Iraq, and the little planning that took place was ignored by the State Department, who didn't want to hear daunting words about liberating Iraq from Saddam Hussein. The Pentagon skimped on troops, ignored the generals' advice, and sent light forces to Iraq. The Pe...

Yes, there is little question that Saddam Hussein is no Martin Luther King, Jr.; no question that he is no Ghandi, no doubt that he has subjugated many millions of people and terrorized his own countrymen and has little right to legitimate leadership. Unfortunately, the story is not so simple and...

It is almost contrived to say that history can educate the leaders and key thinkers of the present, yet the phrase "learn from the past" appears in nearly every history book's introduction. With all the historians and well-read politicians in this society, hasn't anyone been ab...