April Current Events: First Iraqi flight to London in 20 years lands at Gatwick

The first airplane to fly from Iraq to London landed on Friday and left on Monday. No admittance was allowed in London because of Iraq invasion of Kuwait in 1990. The flight was full of commercial passengers and ministry officials.

This event has global importance because after many years of American work in Iraq they are opening up to Western countries and Western countries are making relations with them. If american work in the Middle East pays off like this than most of the countries like Afghanistan will become western and lower oil costs. This would lower the United States economic depts.

April Current Events: U.S.: N. Korean torpedo likely sunk warship

A South Korean warship was sunk most likely by North Korean Torpedo's. The United States believes that the ship was sunk by an underwater explosion but the explosive device did not hit the ships hull. The attack happened last month.

This has global importance because this could end the armistice between North and South Korea. If this were to happen then the United States would have to open on another front. Also Britain and many other nations would have to get involved. And becuase North Korea may or may not have nuclear weapons a nuclear war may occur. They could drop the big one on South Korea killing thousand and millions of people.

Do Now 4/22/10

Do you think that the U.S. can win its war in Afghanistan?
- I do not believe that the United States can win its war in Afghanistan. I think this becuase it is impossible to find Osama Bin Laden. We were right on top of him and yet we still did not find him. He is hidden in the mountains which can not be bombed. If we do catch Osama bin Laden or he dies than someone else will replace him and continue to spread their terror. Our government, the strongest in the world have been in a war searching for him for over 8 years. If we have not found him yet I do not think we will find him. But I do not think that we should pull out. We need to find Osama bin Laden to bring safety to the United States. If we pulled out the Taliaban would take over and attacks America.

Adam Smith

I do agree with the author. I do but I would also add the idea of spreading democracy and uninstalling a dictatorship. I agree with his first point about oil becasue Iraq is the number two leader in oil production. If we could gain a good relationship with them by creating a democracy we could gain easier access to cheap oil. I think that his second topic about protecting Israel is true as well because we are currently trying to set up military bases in Iraq. Israel would have another western allie in the MIddle East to ease the tension between other nations and the Palestinians. His third idea I disagree with. I do not think that the US would enter Iraq only to prove our power. I think that we have already shown our power in our economy and there is no further need of it.

A Dangerous Mix of Water and Oil

I think that the World should be concerned about water in the Middle East because it can cause a lot of conflict and many countries are arguing over water ways. Like turkey has set up dams and such things. This has major effects on the water down stream in the water choked middle east. Also water is essential in many buissnesses such as oil. And many people are dying from lack of water. Forexample the number of babies that have died form darhea had equalled the number of deaths in WWII. The U.S. should have a concern about water because it will reaise the price of oil which will raise the price of everthing else causing a huge change in the economy. the Middle Easty will raise the price of their oil because they need oil to dig for petroleum.

Ending Americas dependancy on oil.

I think that the way to end this is to slowly change to energy effiscent battery cars. I think this because it will lessen our oil usage. They run for 20-40 miles on battery and then switch to oil. I thyink this can't be our total solution though becuase we still will eventually run out of oil. When we do run out of oil I think that we should resort to horse back. Horses can go unusual distances and consume only reusable resources. But I think this idea would be unreliable for military uses and we should tap into our Alsakan oil for their usage only. I think that they would be using this and every other nation would have usd their oil resources.

Interview of Conflict

I think that the most interesting person in this video was Julia. She was a high school Israeli student. Julia was in a organization called the Seeds of Peace Organization. They have schools in Jeruselum that teach both Israelis and Palestinians to build the relationship between the two groups. She helps with them. Then her friends are on a bus and it blows up killing them. She is very distressed about the whole thing because she fells as though peace can not be achieved. This mindset is changed when she talks to her palestinian friend. Julia rides a bus herself and is very frightend. She looks around for suspicious people. She makes it back safe.

The Israelis and Palestinians have a much worse living than us. They have so much fear of just going on a bus and walking down the street but we can do what ever without fear. But do yuo think that the people in Philadelphia and New York live in this constant fear? People are dieing just as easily as them and it s dangerous at night in the bad parts.