cbeuttler

Many things have changed since 2001, Americans haven’t been the same since. It seems as if we are much more likely not to trust people as much and it seems our trust in people has been shaken. We no longer seem to trust our president and it seems as if Vietnam is being repeated. More Americans seem to be against our government’s decisions than ever before. A lot have lost hope that they once had. Soldiers are less reluctant to go off to war as they have been in the past, it seems as if they don’t know why they are fighting. It also seems, because of Iraq, that the Muslim world is also more against us than ever before. Americans seem to be hated in every part of the globe.

Many Americans aren’t happy with the war in Iraq, they wonder why are we sending so many troops for a war that we made ourselves a part of. “The war in Iraq is getting worse and worse they’re sending more and more troops(Three soldiers).”  There seems as if there is no end to this war. It’s becoming another Vietnam. We have been lead on by an assumption that Iraq “possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons(Fighting For Nothing).” Many people no longer believe the media or propaganda any more. Many soldiers aren’t as willing to fight if they don’t believe in the reasons, it seems as if our military has also lost its trust in George Bush. Some people say that joining the military is “a devil’s contract if you look at it that way(Deserter of Wrong).” Being in the armed forces recently has almost been like a jail sentence. The only difference is you have to serve time in Iraq instead of jail cell.

Since 2001 many things have changed, the biggest being the war in Iraq. It seems as if it has made us loose hope in our government. It seems as if we’re in a war we can’t win and everyone American is against. It’s also not as patriotic to be a soldier as it once was it seems as if it’s a jail sentence. To top it all off, more and more countries seem to hate us by the day. Things have gone downhill since 2001 and most Americans have lost hope.

Colin Beuttler