War on Iraq: Stepping Stone to an Empire

Prompt Mailer 2

Mailer says that we are at war because Bush is trying to create an empire."Behind the whole push to go to war with Iraq is the desire to have a huge military presence in the Middle East as a stepping-stone to taking over the rest of the world." (51) By taking power in Iraq we will begin to spread democracy across the world and gaining more power with every gun shot.

Many believe this plot for world domination gives Bush too much credit. Although Bush is not the brightest politician out there I trust he knows exactly what he is doing. He surrounds himself with power hungry politicians to do his decision making and strategizing for him. I don’t believe that Bush really thought that he would have an empire by the time he was out of office but I do believe that he wanted to make a push into that direction. Once you start a war than it will not go away just because we have anew president in office. War has a chain reaction and is not easily distinguished.

Bush and his flag conservatives as mailer refers to them believe that if we go to war and obtain an empire it will solve all the United States problems. Flag conservatives believe that our younger generation will then all of a sudden be more interested in obtaining an education than doing drugs or having sex. In addition, our "immoralities" will be distinguished by American Pride.

I believe that we need to focus on our own country in stead of trying to fix others. Our so called “Democracy” isn’t working in our won country so why are we trying to push it on others. We think it’s wrong that the Muslim women have to cover every inch of their body and walk behind their husbands. But yet we suppress our own people such as those who are gay. If we spent half the energy and power on improving ourselves instead of using it change other countries we be going might have a chance at becoming the great nation we claim to be.