Tag: Afghanistan
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The Deserted Race in Iron Man
For my historical analysis paper about post 9/11, the text I have chosen to focus on was the first Iron Man movie directed by Jon Favreau alongside the Marvel franchise. The movie was released on May 2, 2008 and reached $585.8 million in the box office. The audiences loved the triumphant message of the film…
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War on Terror
The War on Terror began as a global counterterrorism campaign in response to the attacks of September 11, 2001. Not only has this war taken place for the last 20 years, but it has also cost a total of $8 trillion and resulted in over 900,000 deaths. A part of the War on Terror was…
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Unifying Rhetoric
On August 16, 2021, President Biden addressed the nation with the intent to explain the removal of American troops in Afghanistan. A survey conducted by The Chicago Council on July 26, 2021, showed that 70% of Americans supported the idea that the U.S. should “withdraw U.S. combat forces from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021” (Sullivan…
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Cowards vs Saviors
On August 16th, President Biden addressed the nation following the beginning of U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. He was honoring President Trump’s previous deal to have troops removed by May 2021. Leading up to the actual removal, the Taliban had taken over the capital of Nimroz province and, the day before these remarks, the Taliban had…
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Political Rhetoric: Afghanistan
An ever-changing and difficult topic in the political world in recent months is one that has been among headlines for 20 years: Afghanistan. American troops arrived in Afghanistan in 2003 with the objective of bringing Osama Bin Laden and every other Al-Qaeda terrorist to justice that took part in the planning and execution of the…
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Hyperreality in Mariam Ghani and Chitra Ganesh’s Introduction to an Index
Guantanamo Bay or Gitmo is a United States high-security prison in Cuba. It was constructed in 2002 and was used to incarcerate suspected terrorists and Muslim militants that were captured in the “Global War on Terror” in places such as Afghanistan and Iraq. These men were officially called “special interest detainees” by the U.S. government.1…
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Afghan Children Used for Propaganda Following the 2021 U.S. Withdrawal
Timeline: What was happening? The United States initially went to war in Afghanistan as an act of revenge on the Al Qaeda terrorist group nearly two decades ago, but eventually began deviating from their original plans and began trying to establish a centralized democracy, secure women’s rights, advocate for education and essentially fix everything that…
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CNN’s portrayal of Afghan Women during September 2021
A Brief Overview of This Analysis In this analysis, I aim to point out the ways in which Western news sources continue to use Afghan women as a means for perpetrating an American political agenda. To accurately analyze a modern example of this, one must first lay the historical groundwork. America has a lengthy history…