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Virginia Guerrero Our reaction to violence as a nation When September 11 happened our reaction to the harm that they caused on us was to harm their country. How did that make us better individuals, going out and fighting a war that had no meaning, other then the fact that they bombed the twin towers. “…Well then why don’t we join!” said Efrain. The three of us looked at each other... we stayed quiet... then all of the sudden we all said “Let’s go!”(Chapter 1) These three men looked at each other and decided to join the war but did they even know why it was getting worse. How can we go try to change another county when America isn’t perfect. Or when America as a whole can’t even get along with each other. When a person pisses off another what does the other person do? Well, kick his ass, what else but to show him who is boss. So what is our reaction to violence, attack, attack until they know what country rules who. Our president decided to go into war, but did he even know himself why he was sending our citizens to war. Bush thought that was what the capitalist people wanted to hear. He had to do what that political group wanted, if he didn’t who would pay add companies. Half of our civilians were at war, but hey if these capitalist people knew that they where getting revenge then the job was done. “…wanting nothing in return but the mirroring offer you undeniably accepted….” (Chapter 35) Nothing takes away the fact that the men that go to war are heroes. Although, at times these men only go to show that they are actually men. Although through out this chapter there was no facts to back up the reason of why we went to war. All you get from it is that this man went to fight and at the end he felt great because he was standing next to these other troops and he felt that he belonged. But what is the actual reason that we are killing our own people and Iraqi’s? “…Two aircrafts hit the twin towers that day, something that we will never forget. I was mad like most of Americans were, so I re-enlisted…”(Chapter 3) How is it that two wrong make a right, how is it that they bombed the twin towers so we go to Iraq and attack them and stay in their country for six years. “Time to 'lock and load”(chapter 3) U.S. went into war as if it was a game, a treasure hunt, lets see how many Iraqi’s we can kill and hey maybe we can find weapons in Iraq. But hey the good thing is that at least we killed thousands of people for oil, good for us. Bush tried to say that we went to war to fix their government, when the fact was we need their oil. When someone tries to harm our country we attack. Just to let them know that we aren’t afraid to kill our own people. No matter what the reason is, come on if we don’t go to war how else would we fix things, by talking? It wouldn’t feel right that someone else was bossing us around, what would that say about America. So we have to let this whole nation know that we rule the water. America feels that they have the right to but into other countries problems. That is why we are hated so much. Although we can’t change and make at least one thing better in America we still have the right to criticize other ones and destroy their country. This might be a random thought but next time we go into war, how about we have an actual reason. As a country, we have made a point that we don’t care, we will kill are own people to make a point. It’s all about the U.S.