Exercise 4.3

Step One: Chose three different beginnings or leads to your research paper: 1. Bullets flying. Explosions. Lots of yelling. Fearing for your life. Killed of be killed. These are the some of the stressful situations our soldiers are put under. After imagining all these situations I wonder about how the soldiers are effected both physically and mentally from being put these situations. This also leads to further questions such as if the effects are worth it. I ultimately question weather the U.S. military cause more good than harm. 2. Our budget should be bigger. We need more money to increase our armed forces. With being in multiple conflicts we need to build a larger military to recover. These are all claims from the pentagon. We need to build bigger and we need to spend more they say. While the pentagon may believe this is true is it really necessary? Have you ever thought about how this will effect he American people and effect our economy? So I'll raise another question, does the U.S. Armed Forces cause more good then harm? 3. One definition of terrorism is the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes. Another is the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization. And a third is a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government. If you think about do all these definitions of terrorism describe the majority of the actions of the US military? While using the dictionary definitions of terrorism, is the US better then "terrorist" or are we just the same as them? What make us any better? Do these definitions make you seriously think if our military is truly doing good, or are they doing more harm than good?