The Girl Who Got Away

     So there I was being a drugstore cowboy along with my buddies. I was doubtful, I didn't think it was going to work, but my friend just told me to relax. I had a swig of some giggle water so I wouldn't be so nervous and scare the ladies away. We were standing there for a while talking to pass the time, that's until I saw her. She was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen, I thought it was too good to be true, maybe she was a moll or a gold digger. As she walked into the drugstore, there I was looking at her gams and her chassis, letting my imagination take hold of me. Applesauce! I thought, I could never get a girl like her, no way. But just as I was beginning to let it go, there I saw her coming out of the store and walking over towards me. No, I thought, it must be someone standing behind me one of her girlfriends, or maybe even her boyfriend, but there she was standing right in front of me, and I was wishing I had on my glad rags. And then I just blurt out, "Would you like to have dinner with me??! I know this restaurant that's really the cat's meow." And before I could be embarrassed by what I had just said, I heard her say yes. The next thing I know we're both seated at this restaurant, and this woman was the bee's knees. It was such a good time filled with conversation so I figured I would take a risk and put my lips right on her kisser. Right before I could though, she told me, "Bank's closed," and walked out. Life was anything but berries now, I can't believe I blew it. Man, was I a fire extinguisher, or what?

Wikileaks

According to some, WikiLeaks is a corporation that seems hell bent on causing chaos in our country. However, others believe that it is working to keep us aware and the governments open with what is going on with our country. So how can you judge what is right and wrong when there are two different sides? With so many arguments about this controversy, it's hard to formulate your own opinions about the subject. But here are the facts behind WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organisation that publishes submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news sources and news leaks. Its website, launched in 2006 and run by The Sunshine Press, claimed a database of more than 1.2 million documents within a year of its launch. The organization describes its founders as a mix of Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians, and start-up company technologists from the United States, Taiwan, Europe, Australia, and South Africa. Julian Assange, an Australian Internet activist, is generally described as its director. Assange, though an Australian citizen, has had no permanent address for several years and is constantly on the move. As you can imagine there are many people angry with him for his actions and he is currently trying to seek political asylum in Switzerland. If he ventures into the United States he is sure to be arrested on the spot as soon as he comes onto our country. He believes that governments should be open with their people and that is whole reason behind WikiLeaks. This organization releases thousands of classified documents and videos, the most controversial of which featured a video of innocent journalists being shot down in Iraq, because their camera equipment from a helicopter resembled AK47s. 12 to 15 people were killed by aerial assault and helicopters even shot at a family trying to help move the bodies to safety. This resulted in the death of a father and the injuries of two of his children among the deaths of innocent civilians and two Reuters reporters. I feel appreciative that WikiLeaks has released this video because it feels like there is finally some justice to those who lost loved ones and it sheds light on our militants serving and why they engaged in the first place. This video can help our military improve so that this horrific incident will never happen again. We can use it to learn from our mistakes and do better, because from the subtitles of the video these pilots seem like they are playing a video with phrases like "sweet," "look at that bitch go." and "nice missile," which can be heard in the background. They don't seem to realize that real human lives are at stake, and they are very insensitive when after everyone is dead, they run over one of the bodies with a tank. Instances like these, I'm glad to see are out there on public display and open to criticism. I am well aware that our government is flawed, however I do realize that sometimes they hide things from us to protect us. It is nice to know that I don't have to worry about something on top of all my other stress about homework, colleges, and my social life. Sometimes ignorance, IS bliss. Hiding the truth from us though, is almost like what you read in George Orwell's 1984, where big brother is always watching and everything you know is a lie. I won't take it that far, but you can see where this is going. So no matter what there are always going to be conflicts with different opinions. You just have to take the good with the bad. This is something that is happening and there is nothing that we can do to stop it. We just have to accept the facts. 

To torture, or not to torture

You should treat these detained prisoners like normal, subjecting them to absolutely no physical or emotional torture or abuse. Giving in to torturing for information will only fuel their hatred for Americans even more giving them a reason to torture and kill us too. Although a little more frustrating and strenuous, your squad will have to find the information out another way.
One long term repercussion is the continuation of the war is more likely with torturing enemies because this makes people vengeful and peace is harder to obtain. A short term repercussion is that if word spreads of our troops torture of the insurgents other enemies and terrorists can plot against us and kill us while we are still in the area. Thus we would never find the bomb factory, whereas without torture we could still have a chance.

Responses to the war

The United States declaration of war mentioned a lot about the government and the country of Germany. It also talked about the rights of the people and wanting to make peace and encourage freedom. The United States wanted to take action against imperialistic Germany and their use of unrestricted submarine warfare as seen with the sinking of the Lusitania in May. Even if you can't see the whole passage, my guess is that the tone was reasonable and straight forward, where as the German response seemed more violent and belligerent towards the United States. You could probably find some mention in the German response of the US being ignorant because we were previously warned not to boat in those waters because of the prospect of being sunk. We ignored those warnings and because of that many people perished and it indirectly forced our involvement in the war. Germany obviously didn't seem regretful or sorry about this incident because they had already warned us so they accepted and embraced the fact that we were entering the war.