A Thousand Splendid Suns Essay

If we the United States don’t prevent the wars that we provoke or interfere in and spend the same amount of time, money, and effort we share the guilt for the dead who are actually fighting. In other words if we don’t try to stop a war, we are as guilty of murder as the person who is pulling the trigger. Therefore we the people of the United States should not interfere with the problems of other countries. There are many types of people in our world today who have experienced war and in every way hate the thought of it and those who have not who think that another country joining in to help with their problems might not be such a bad idea, because it would help them possibly better their everyday life.

In A Thousand Splendid Suns Tariq thought of the United States joining the war and said “It may not be such a bad thing. The reason that Tariq might not think that it is a bad idea is that even though he has experienced it first hand he might hope that the United States will help the suffering people of his country. In helping to fight against the Taliban who are causing all the trouble in this country. Although Laila does not view the United States joining in the same way she says “Not so bad? People dying? Women, children, old people? Homes destroyed again.” To Laila it would all be the same because she has seen people die and because of this experiencing such things it has affected her physically and emotionally. Laila would add that war brings death, which would mean that a lot of people would lose their lives in it, the deaths of people would emotionally break down families, which would all lead to being completely miserable and unhappy. Both Laila and Tariq are contradicting views on war would have to do with personal experiences that each individual had so they could say such things about the war in their country. Laila and Tariq are not just the only ones who have experienced war. The reason is that war has happened in many countries whether it be civil or controversial and one specifically that the United States went into to interfere with was the Vietnam War.

The United States entered this war to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam. To do such a thing they used a containment policy that used military, economic, and diplomatic strategies so that they could reduce the spread of communism which would in their eyes enhance America’s security and prevent a domino effect of Communism spreading all over. This single war out of many that have happened to have to do with the U. S. was the longest war in American history. This was one of the most unpopular American wars that happened during the twentieth century. This war alone caused nearly 60,000 American deaths alone not including those who were injured. Because of this war today many Americans still ask if it was worth American effort in Vietnam or if it was just a careless mistake, or an actual necessary war to go interfere in just so that the South Vietnamese would be protected from a totalitarian government. Because of wars like these many people are affected and lose family members that should still be alive but are not do to choices that were taken in joining another countries war and helping with their problems. War its self affects many aspects of many peoples every day life’s and with the United States reputation of joining other wars to interfere with their problems has become very common and not only affects civilians personally but economically as well. Today the war in Iraq has a price of $59,202,453,105 cost of the war in Iraq to our community and $22,300,331,143 cost of the war in Pakistan to our community and is still climbing by the day. This very large amount of money shouldn’t even be being wasted because we shouldn’t even be overseas trying to fix other countries' problems.

The main reason that anyone might argue as the reason that soldiers are staying in Iraq when there is no war happening is because of the large abundance of oil that this country has that we the United States can get a hold of for a discount possibly because of helping resolve their problems. Because of being overseas the money spent on keeping military soldiers there is becoming more and more expensive. This leads us to see the total amount of money($81,502,827,471) that wars have cost since 2001. Because of the United States' actions we as a nation are in national debt which is still rising unfortunately especially in the area of war which is also causing many military soldiers to lose their lives because of problems that they shouldn’t have gone into. For this reason, things like economies suffering, people dying, and problems being solved each makes many people have different points of view of wars like the ones that are happening in our world today but one thing that will never change is that people will always die and economies will suffer because of wars ,and if we don’t try to change this then people who make the decisions to go to war will be sending people off to their deaths and will worsen our economy which would then make their own people suffer. Because of things like this a wise man of our countries U. S. Army once said “Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked…and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead. (Omar N. Bradley, General of the U. S. Army, 1893-1981) which will continue to happen if we do keep on happening if we the United States don’t take into consideration the consequences that come with their actions when interfering in another countries problems.

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