The United States should not be held responsible over another country’s problems as long as those problems don’t affect us. Some might see it as being a ‘noble’ or ‘doing the right thing’ but I think it’s irresponsible for our own country. We’re constantly spending millions and millions of dollars funding a war that doesn’t seem to be getting us anywhere. Meanwhile, we’re struggling to kick start our economy and rebuild the job market. I think that if we put those millions of dollars towards helping ourselves that we would be in a much better economic position than we are now. In the end, I think our constant involvement in issues that don’t concern us is hurting us more than it is helping.

In addition to that, we have thousands of lives that are constantly being sacrificed in the war all the time. Even now, though, almost ten years into the war, I do not understand that what we are fighting for or why we are fighting. I think the best thing we can do is slowly but surely withdraw from the war and deal with our own problems such as immigration, building jobs, and protecting ourselves from future terrorist attempts.

Common sense and the sociological perspective are clearly two different things. Common sense migth say to me we're only hurting ourselves in contributing to this war, while some others might believe that we are in fact strengthing our relations with the Middle East. What one might see as being ‘obvious’ or common sense might be different to another. With that sociological perspective in mind, we can disconnect ourselves from our emotions and focus more on what would be better for not only us as individuals, but for the country as a whole.