July 12, 2010



After chatting with my peers this is what I figured out that after our discussion in class I came out knowing more than I thought. At first we talked about how it would affect the country if all the soldiers came home. This is because we would need to either create more jobs or let other workers go so that the returning soldiers have a well steady job. Another solution would be to create more factory jobs like we did during WWII, but with the way are economy is here in the U.S. They wouldn’t be assured a secured job that could provide them with everything they need. A G.I. bill could help the soldiers by helping them with rent and such while they find jobs. But it won’t last long and soon even the soldiers will be out of a job.
I told them that it would be better if the soldiers stayed at war because at least in Afghanistan they can make a profit. But my peers said that we should just take over Afghanistan and make it part of the U.S. that way we could always keep an eye on them. Although we would probably have more problems because as they pointed out, the Taliban and al Qaeda would be trying to spread in the U.S. We all think that the United States should take the minerals as a payment for all the help we have offered them. Most of their arguments were backed up by facts that they researched. So the conversation was very interesting as seeing the different points that we each had.