AOW #21: 20 key findings of the Senate's CIA torture report

This weeks article of the week is on the 20 key findings of the Senate’s CIA torture report. This article is by far the worst and the most confusing. I seriously did not understand one bit of it. I guess some kind of Central Intelligence Agency that's in with the Senate was not giving accurate information out about the committee. The CIA’s group was really not a way for intelligence like they say.

The government and the CIA always lie’s about what is happening in the world with terrorism and threats from other countries. I think they just don’t want us to know because they have part in what is going on. The CIA holds information from us and won't admit that it is terrorism, they blow it off like nothing is going on. So shouldn't they get in trouble for releasing all the false information that they do? They have secrets in area 51 that no one is aloud to know about and if you work for them and spill information then the person ends up missing. We the people of the United States have the right to know all the details that are happening in our country just like the CIA.

As stated in the article “The people govern. And the people cannot govern unless they know what is being done in their name” (Keane 2). If the people governed the united states I don't think it would last long everything would be corrupt, But I think if we have a government then we should know everything about what's going on and at least have a say in it. The people of the United States don't need to be lied to about public events. We have the right to know what's going on and to know if its terrorist acts, but they will not admit that the stuff happening is from terrorist. I think everyone should be fed up with our government the way they treat us.

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AOW #20: The Dangers of Our Aging Nuclear Arsenal

I really did not understand one bit of this article. The past couple article of the weeks have been nothing but confusing and hard to get 300 words out of, but I guess i’ll try my best too. This weeks article is on problems going on with the nuclear enterprise according to the pentagon. The stockpile for the United States nuclear weapons have decreased rapidly over the years due to the end of the Cold War. The U.S went from 31,000 weapons down to around 4,800.

So I take it that after the Cold War the government has not tried to keep up with any of the arsenal.The United States stores and keeps their missiles and weapons in poorly run down buildings where things are rusted and falling apart. According to the article “The demoralized Air Force personnel safeguarding the weapons have been plagued by scandals reaching to the very top of the command structure-including drug missiles, mislaid missiles, and widespread cheating on readiness tests”(The Week 1). How crazy is that? If I understood this right, the Air Force people in charge of the weapons were caught with drugs?

That is real safe, no wonder are nuclear weapons and what not is falling apart. I think they better had be doing something about this, and keeping an eye on the personnel more. They should do frequent drug tests to ensure the safety of these people and our country. They are dealing with dangerous weapons, thats a big responsibility. The Air Force personnel and officers spend many hours underground working long hours in a small little hole 60 feet underground completing task after task for this stuff.

Supposedly missiles and some weapons have come up missing accidentally. Which I don’t believe one bit. The United States thinks they are going to keep the rest of the arsenal from falling apart, but really it doesn't sound like to me they have been doing a very good job keeping it maintained so what makes them think they are going to do a good job at it now? Something definitely needs to be done before it continues to get out of hand.

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AOW #19: Cuba and Uncle Sam: A Brief History

This article of the week was just really hard for me to understand, I didn't like it all. I cannot seem to make myself like history stuff with politics and such. Anyways, this weeks article was on a brief history of Cuba. I guess Cuba gained independence in the 19th century because the United States interfered. This caused us in the U.S to end up in war with the Spanish in 1898.

Our Military was so strong that it took all the Spanish out. As stated in the article, “In 1980, Castro suddenly let thousands of Cubans flee to the U.S”(The Week 2). This would not have happened if we would of just stayed out of it. The U.S always tends to put their noses in other countries problems. We need to learn to stay out of their conflicts and stop jumping in and forcing our ways of doing things in their country, It really does no good but to get more wars started.

Batista was good for Cuba, he was a brutal dictator but his ruling was great. He caused Cuba to grow even though they were still pretty poor.Honestly though what country isn't poor anymore, look at how bad the U.S is in debt. Batista left and came back and ran for office again and lost. I guess Castro was a pretty horrible person, he destroyed his rivals and was trying to destroy communism.

I think I understood that right. Anyways, They hired an ex lover to try and poison Castro, but it did not work and he ended up resigning because of being ill. He had Cuba’s economy run down and they were still desperately poor. Can we not just learn to leave this poor country alone? let them run their country how they want without causing them so much grief.

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