yeah, UM charges you for just about everything. also, once i uncover them they still won't directly change my gpa, so i'll recalculate it myself and explain it on my apps. i think that's a pretty standard policy though. oh well.
based on the horrible things that were going on in that area of the world, someone had to intervene. answering your questions completely will just bring up the same arguments as before, like the fact that i hate how we went against the UN and really the world by putting ourselves at stake and not listening to the opinions of the rest of our planet in this venture. at which point people will respond by saying that the UN is crap now and that we did listen to other countries, but took one for the global team by taking decisive action where they would not. and then i would say that we are not the only educated and dominant country in the world, why can't we share in the world's decisions? and that the audacity of our foreign policy is exactly why i disagree with our current leader. to him, the enemy is "evil." to citizens of homogenous, narrow-minded towns across the US, this message on their nightly news gives them an excuse for even more ethnocentricity and racism. not to mention making the rest of the world resent not only our politics, but our people. could billions of people closer to reality of the situation be wrong? or will we really keep trying to assert ourselves as the just spreader of freedom to the world, without opening our eyes to the barrage of criticism from others? it isn't that i think with gore we wouldn't have gone, it's just that i hope we would have handled it differently. i'm not even sure i would have voted in that election, even if i had been of age. but if i hadn't i would be kicking myself now. i can't make an informed statement on whether things would have been better, but i am interested in what the alternative would have been like. and that's what i'm going for now, the alternative who advertises agreement with what i believe in. whether or not he lives up to his published campaign is a question of political integrity. but i can't ethically support another four years of this.
none of my statements are meant to spark conflict among us, and not of them are in any way an argument with anything you guys have said before. but for the first time in a long time i felt inspired to elaborate on the vague ideological stances that i occassionally post, so i did. maybe it's because i'm in the middle of a paper i don't want to write. hehe. either way, no need to reply. while i support our debates, i'm just not sure i'll have time to participate throroughly right now. still, i welcome any comments you guys might have. even though this is just a small part of who i am and i am learning new things about it every day, i feel pretty strongly rooted in my opinions, and i respect all of you for the strength of yours.
november 2 here we come...
based on the horrible things that were going on in that area of the world, someone had to intervene. answering your questions completely will just bring up the same arguments as before, like the fact that i hate how we went against the UN and really the world by putting ourselves at stake and not listening to the opinions of the rest of our planet in this venture. at which point people will respond by saying that the UN is crap now and that we did listen to other countries, but took one for the global team by taking decisive action where they would not. and then i would say that we are not the only educated and dominant country in the world, why can't we share in the world's decisions? and that the audacity of our foreign policy is exactly why i disagree with our current leader. to him, the enemy is "evil." to citizens of homogenous, narrow-minded towns across the US, this message on their nightly news gives them an excuse for even more ethnocentricity and racism. not to mention making the rest of the world resent not only our politics, but our people. could billions of people closer to reality of the situation be wrong? or will we really keep trying to assert ourselves as the just spreader of freedom to the world, without opening our eyes to the barrage of criticism from others? it isn't that i think with gore we wouldn't have gone, it's just that i hope we would have handled it differently. i'm not even sure i would have voted in that election, even if i had been of age. but if i hadn't i would be kicking myself now. i can't make an informed statement on whether things would have been better, but i am interested in what the alternative would have been like. and that's what i'm going for now, the alternative who advertises agreement with what i believe in. whether or not he lives up to his published campaign is a question of political integrity. but i can't ethically support another four years of this.
none of my statements are meant to spark conflict among us, and not of them are in any way an argument with anything you guys have said before. but for the first time in a long time i felt inspired to elaborate on the vague ideological stances that i occassionally post, so i did. maybe it's because i'm in the middle of a paper i don't want to write. hehe. either way, no need to reply. while i support our debates, i'm just not sure i'll have time to participate throroughly right now. still, i welcome any comments you guys might have. even though this is just a small part of who i am and i am learning new things about it every day, i feel pretty strongly rooted in my opinions, and i respect all of you for the strength of yours.
november 2 here we come...
