Who
are the Bad Guys
As many of you may know we are at war right now in
the Middle East. Many of you may not know how we got ourselves into this war.
To help me explain how we got into this war and what has gone on since this war
has started I'm going to let my friend G.I Joe
explain (figure 1).
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| Figure 1: G.I Joe |
Hey kids, My name is G.I
Joe, many of you probably are familiar with my action figure which is a
popular toy for you boys out there. I am also a general in the U.S army. I was
told that you guys could use an explanation of the war that we are fighting
right now. It all started about 14 years ago on September
11th, 2001 better know as 9/11. The
events that happened on 9/11 have really
changed this country. It doesn't exactly make you too happy when a group of
people from another country come into your and steal your planes and fly them
into some of your most important buildings. In fact it made our president at
the time, George Bush, pretty angry. He decided
that the safest thing for us to do was to go over to their country and start a
war with them. He knew that if we went over there we could keep it out of our
country. But where is over there? We went to the middle east, which is a area
consisting of a couple of countries, but the 3 most important are Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan, because that is where
most of those people were from (1). And who are those people? Those people are Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda
is a group of terrorists. Terrorists are people who cause harm onto another
person or group of people. They are kind of like bullies
but meaner and they have stronger way of hurting you beside just words
and wedgies. These terrorists have guns,
lots of guns. They even give guns to kids your age (figure 2). Back to the
point, When we got over to the middle east, we found out that not only have
these people hurt us but they were hurting their own people. They had taken
over villages and made the people who lived there listen to what they say. This
war became not only about revenge for us, but to free these people from the
harsh life that these terrorists were making them live.
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| Figure 2: Young child in Afganistan |
Now that you have an understanding of how this war
started and why we are fighting, lets jump to today and see whats going on. We
have done a lot of good in the middle east. We have freed a lot of innocent
people from harm in their own villages. We have also taken out the 2 biggest
leaders of Al Qaeda. We put together search teams and went out and looked
around in the mountains for years until we found the first one. We found him,
Saddam Hussein, in a cave hiding in a hole(3). The United States had scored a
minor victory, but it would not be a large victory until we found his partner
in crime, Bin Laden. We had received a phone call that led us right to him. We
took a search team into the house he was in and captured him and took him
away(4). That made the U.S feel like this war had meaning. We had finally taken
out the two people responsible for 9/11. As of 2013, we have stopped fighting
in Afghanistan(5). We felt that we had done our job there and needed to focus on
Iraq and Iran. We are taking troops out of those countries and trying to end
the war as a whole, but for now that is where we are. Now, how about a little
quiz to see how well you paid attention?
Quiz
1.
What is the date of the biggest tragedy in America?
2. Who was the president that sent us to war?
3. What is the name of the group of terrorists?
4. What 3 countries were we fighting in?
5. What are the names of the two leaders we have
taken out?
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