4-18-11                      Will we be in the Middle East forever?

There are many points of views on this, and many variables surrounding this. Some might say we will be there forever, and others think we will be out of there soon. It all depends on many factors. The main thing is terrorists, they are there, but we do not know exactly where. That is mainly why we are over, to kill terrorists.

Terrorists are mainly just radical religious people who murder people, blow buildings up, blow themselves up in order to kill other people, all in the name of God. A group of terrorists known as Al Queda hijacked four passenger airplanes on September 11^th, 2001. They crashed two of the airplanes into the Twin Towers, one into the Pentagon, and one was headed for the White House but the brave souls in that last airplane fought back and the plane crashed in Pennsylvania. Almost 3,000 innocent people died because of these attacks. This is why we went over there, to seek revenge.

Terrorists will most likely never go away, unless the countries that harbor them change their minds and put strict laws in place to stop the terrorists, and that will most likely never happen. At first we went over to fight the terrorists, then it turned into getting rid of Saddam Hussein, then putting in place a democratic government in Iraq, and I do not think it will end. Every time we invade a country and throw out their leaders we put in a democratic government and that is not easy, and if we keep doing that we will end up staying over there for a very long time.

I think we should stay over there and fight the terrorists and anyone who gets in our way, and like in Libya, if some government is oppressing their people/killing their people we should go there and fight against their government, but only after coming up with a legitimate plan that will simplify things and allow us to be in and out in a short period of time. The thing with Iraq is that they are like our child, and we do not want to let them go on their own, we want to keep supporting them because we do not want them to fail. But parents have to let go at some point, so we should let go of Iraq and wait and see how they fair. We can bring the troops back, let them rest for a few years, and then bring the ones, who want to go back, back to the Middle East to fight terrorists.

But while they are back, we should come up with a new game plan. It is like in sports, it is hard for the coach to get his players to perform a specific play, or show them a new play, without calling a time out. I think America should call a time out, write up a new playbook, put in the bench players, and then teach the starters the new plays. Once the starters are ready we should put them back in, and keep the bench players in too even though that is impossible in sports, and have them teach the bench players the new plays. I do not think we should leave the Middle East until we kill every terrorist and scared straight anyone thinking of being a terrorist.