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Directions: Explore the websites below.

Unit Five: The War at Home – Liberty vs. Security

• Who checks the Commander in Chief?

Cheney’s Law

• Are we safer?

• Is it worth cost?

The Wounded Platoon

Directions: Directions: Using the videos and readings below be able to discuss the following questions:

Lesson # 4: The Graveyard of Empires – Afghanistan

• Who are the Taliban?

Talking to the Taliban

• How can we lose the war we won?

Obama’s War

• What next for Af / Pak?

Talibanistan

King David’s War

Due to weather class will be rescheduled. We will discuss the new date next class.

Directions: Using the videos and readings below be able to discuss the following questions:

• How was the war sold?
• What went wrong?
• Who won?

The Frontline video Bush’s War is in two parts of two hours each there is also an video timeline. Our familiarity with the topics will vary so feel free to skim the timeline and watch the section of the video that best address the questions.  The short article below will also be helpful.

So Who Won the War in Iraq?

Complete as much of the following as you can. It’s helpful if you take notes or write out your responses to the questions below.

Unit Two: Al Qaeda and the “New Terrorism”

• What is the new Terrorism?

The Foundation of the New Terrorism

• Who is Osama bin Laden?

Greetings My Name My Name is Osama…

• How has Al Qaeda evolved?

Al Qaeda Code

(Remember log in)

Complete as much of the following as you can. It’s helpful if you take notes or write out your responses to the questions below.  I am aware that everyone is busy, so do what you can and don’t worry about how prepared you’ll be. I look forward to our first class.

Unit One: The Roots of the Conflict

• 9/11: How did it happen?

Read The Road to 9/11

• Why do “they” hate us?

Read The Roots of Muslim Rage

or watch  The Road of 9/11

• What is the Bush doctrine?

(I’ll give a handout in class.)

Here is a Lolita T-shirt that Kasey found and sent on to me, writing “for the first graduating adult (r) ed class of lrei?”

In our final week we will shift our focus to domestic front. We will look at Cheney’s role in the expansion of presidential power and then discuss the approach of the Obama administration?

• What are the justifications for the Unitary Presidency?
• What was done to limit the expansion of presidential powers?
• What are the Obama administrations approach to presidential power?

Cheney’s Law
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/cheney/

The Power Grab
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19092

Cheney in his Own Words
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/themes/ownwords.html

Obama’s War Over Terror
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/magazine/17Terror-t.html

Here are two more pieces of student writing that came to me last week.  They are very different, but both superb.  Nabokov would be proud, I’m sure.

Mirrors-Water-Sex-Death by Susie Marples

Psychiatric Evaluation of H by Michel de Konkoly Thege