Blog for Week Sechs

Countries felt they needed something better. People felt betrayed and disallusioned. Europe wasnt sure how the war really made anything other than a huge economic mess and feelings of resentment and bitterness towards other countries. I look at it in my terms of coaching basketball; I tell my girls there is always one point in a game that either the team we are playing is going to take it away and blow us out, or we can strike quickly and get back into the game and compete. The '20s in Europe is this moment. People needed something everywhere, a leader or a reason or anything for themsleves to beleive in...this was a Time of Possibilities.

Blog for Week Quatre

President Bush's gamble on bringing democracy to the middle east to most people a ploy for other things. Im not going to discuss politics on that level. So lets say that the main goal is a democracy, does might equal right? Do we, as a democratic state, feel that we need to push our agenda on other nations because we feel we are right? But it is for world peace, to bring harmony and peace to a troubled area; yeah that sounds good, but is it what we are really doing? We need them to be able to work with us on an economic level and that is not going to heppen peacefully once you bring religion into the discussion. You cannot bring democracy and peace to an area that hates you for no other reason than their God tells them so. This isnt all of the middle east, but the area we are trying to change had those people in it, and its easier to change a tigers stripes than a religious fanatic who has devoted followers and a God.
For Bush, Wilson or any other Prez to think that they would be able to enforce or push their ideoligical values on other people is hubris and will eventually fail until the people of that region, the ENTIRE population want a change for their betterment, not the west.

Week Dos Blog

WWI quickly became a stalemate for alot of reasons, mostly that no one was prepared for the type of war that was going to happen. The "quick" war that everyone expeceted did not happen, and fighting quickly turned into front line positions and neither side gaining any advantage towards the other. This is where the stalemate comes.
Fighting for the soldier was intense, especialy with the amount of casualties that happened. Though the 3 week rotation was good for the troops, 7000 KIA, wounded or missing a day did not help your odds. With the addition of chemical warfare and new heavy artillery going around, the term "war is hell" brings on a whole new meaning for the fighting man.
Also, not having adiquate medical support could have easily messed with the soldiers mind and death being eminate with any type of disease or wound.