Chapter 30

Chapter 30 contained a lot of new information, but it did click in my head. Growing up I’ve always heard about the drama surrounding Clinton’s presidency, I grew up learning about the war going on in the Middle East, but I never really understood what was really going on. I guess growing up history was a class that I just slid by in. Now after reading chapter 30, I felt like I learned a lifetime of information in the forty-five minutes that took me to read this chapter.

            The most interesting thing about this chapter was the fact that the United States Military was involved everywhere. In this chapter I found out that the US military was in Nicaragua, Cuba, Vietnam, Honduras, Costa Rica, Afghanistan, etc. It’s crazy to think that our military was all over the country and now I understand why the US is thought to have one of the strongest armed force. It makes me think back to the recent senate debate as to whether or not we should send armed forces to Syria. I don’t think that it was a smart decision to have our forces to be spread out so much and I guess congress didn’t want to make the same mistake twice. They would rather stay out of other people’s issue so that our armed forces could be used where they are needed. It was also interesting to read about why the war in the Middle East is going on, when the Twin Towers were struck on September 11, I was in the third grade. I had no idea that it was a terrorist attack and I could not comprehend why it was such a big deal, and then growing up we learned about why we are still in the Middle East still fighting. Reading this chapter has made me understand why it started in the first place. The good thing about history is the fact that you will always learn something new everyday.