Monday, March 21, 2016

America and the Middle East



This image was taken in the Middle East, after an American plan fired bombs and bullets all over this town. The particular article lists this picture as a reference to an article called "9/11 the mother of all Big Lies – the grandest of grand deceptions, state-sponsored criminality, the most heinous ever false flag changing everything."

This image represents globalization because the American influence is EVERYWHERE. America has been at war in the Middle East for 14 years. 6,251 soldiers, American soldiers, have died fighting for a cause that many didn't believe in. America is now seen as the terrorist around the world. President George W. Bush lied to the American people about bombs of mass destruction to obtain approval from Congress for the go-ahead for war.

Globalization is defined as the tendency of businesses, technologies, or philosophies to spread throughout the world, or the process of making this happen. The global economy is sometimes referred to as a globality, characterized as a totally interconnected marketplace, unhampered by time zones or national boundaries. According to this definition, by mandating the American presence in the Middle East, we are spreading our own ideals, using our own businesses and technologies to rebuild and our military to train these troops.

I feel that globalization affects war. I feel that technology is a part of globalization, and many of the authors that we have read have stated this as such also. Social media is a way that many extremists that are labeled as "terrorists" recruit followers, and unless they are in a nation state that doesn't allow the use of particular websites, they are recruiting followers and making plans that are not exactly kosher.

To me- this image represents a land that has been torn apart from war, whether it is justified or not, do two wrongs really continue to make a right at this point in time? 

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