영작문_미국의 좋은 시절은 끝났다_ENG_America_good times over
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docxWhen I think about America, it reminds me the world’s strongest and wealthiest country that has a huge territory. However, America is having a hard time now in terms of money and health conditions. According to Rasmussenreports.com, 52% of Americans think the best times have passed while only 35% said the best days are still to come. I agree that America’s good times are in the past for three reasons: the misled Iraq war, economic recession and obesity.
America has contributed on keeping the world’s peace. For example, it helped Jewish people and defeated Nazis and North Korean armies during WWⅡ and Korean War. However, unfortunately, it made a mistake for this time. In 2006, I decided to volunteer to be dispatched in Iraq with a decent purpose that I want to contribute on keeping world piece and eliminating terrorism. A few months later after my dispatch, I was having a dinner with my squad members and U.S. soldiers while watching news together. There was Donald H. Rumsfell, a former secretary of defense, on the news saying that the war was based on wrong information. We were very shocked. I questioned to myself, “Then, is this war really for keeping peace? What kind of wrong information is he talking about?” The U.S. soldiers looked confused as well. In fact, the war wasn’t totally unnecessary. I still think taking Saddam Hussein off from his dictatorship was definitely a good thing. He deserved death penalty considering what he caused to his citizens and neighbor countries. According to Robert Kagan, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, “Former secretary of state Madeleine Albright once compared him to Hitler, and the comparison was apt in a couple of ways. Hussein, as we will soon relearn in excruciating detail, had contempt for human life and no qualms about killing thousands of his own citizens and many thousands more of his neighbors citizens……” However, even if the consequences of the war were successful which are yet questionable except the removal of the dictator, my point is a nation cannot declare a war based on misunderstandings. Nevertheless, America did. As a result, none of weapons of mass destruction that the United States thought Iraq had, was found. Plus, it couldn’t find any good evidence that supports Hussein was closely related with Al Qaeda. Charles V. Pena, a director of defense policy studies at the Cato Institute said, “In fact, all the evidence suggests the contrary. Hussein was a secular Muslim ruler, and Bin Laden is a radical Muslim fundamentalist-their ideological views are hardly compatible.” But Iraq was bombed and we can’t take it back like spilled water. Now, the United States is blamed for the dishonorable war. The nation would hardly have its glory days at least for a while.
