2001-Present+Invasion+of+Afghanistan

= Introduction to the 2001 Invasion of Afghanistan War toc =Master Narrative=
 * Who: || The Americans, Britains, and Afghanistan governments were invloved, but other countries became involved by assocation. ||
 * When: || Started in the summer of 1998 until present day. (2011) ||
 * Where: || This started in Afghanistan, moved to America, now finishing off in Afghanistan. ||
 * Why: || The purpose of this war was to capture Osama Bin Laden and get revenge on Afghanistan for the attack on September 11, 2001. United Stated was lured into a trap by the Afghanistan government. When the attack took place forming the conclusion that the World Trade Center in New York City had tumbled down to the ground, former President Bush, felt as though he wanted to be top dog and interfer with the Afghanistan government which made them retailate against America which caused the war that is still going on today. ||

What is it for this war?
This great country America has been attacked by these uncivilized people and we want to get revenge for all of the casualties they caused and protect America from future attacks also they want to form a democracy in Afghanistan so things like 9/11 don’t happen again

What does it say about America?
After all the thousands of casualties of 9/11 the great country of America has a bunch of patriots that want revenge on the Taliban and are willing to fight to keep America safe from other attacks.

What does it say about African Americans?
The master narrative does one of two things which are that they either just don't acknowledge the contributions of African Americans or they they don't mention it it because they don't want race to be apart of the issue and that everyone are just Americans.

Who/what is being fought for?
This war takes place because of the deaths of Americans and we also invade Afghanistan because we want to protect America from future attacks. =Subaltern Narrative=

What challeneges were African Americans really facing?
The challenges the African Americans were facing were the fact that had to fight in the war free willingly. And also that fighting in this war wasn't as bad as the past wars because with this Afghanistan war every person put their differences aside and came together as one to fight for their country.

What were African Americans really doing?
Lt. Colonel Reginald was the first African American man to become commanding officer of the first unit squadron, 10th calvary. He was the first black man to lead the men into combat. despite the racism and the oppostions they were faced with on a daily basis they never had a problem with serving their country. They loved it, they served with lots of pride and honor.

What is the story of black women during this war?
During this war many women have lost their life. Women such as Army Sargent Keicia M. Hines who was only 27 when she was struck by a vehicle on mosul airfield in mosul iraq. Setetira L. Brown also died july 25, 2008in a non combat related accdient. Army staff sargent Lillian Clamens who was 35 died on october 10, 2007 in baghdad of wounds sustained when insurgents attacked her unit with rockets. And army sargent Princess C. Samuels who died on april 15, 2007 at the age of 22 when the enemy attacked using indirect fire. many people may wonder why women would choose to fight in the military some say its for a good cause, but i for one say there will never be a answer to this QUESTION.

What is ironic about this war as it concerns African American soldiers fighting for the United States?
What is ironic about this was as it concerns african american soliders is that this was has been going on since 1776 and still continues to go in today in 2011.

=Timeline of Important Events= __1998:__ The US used air strikes to attack targets suspected as belonging to Osama bin Laden. __2001__ (October): The US and Britain launch air strikes against Afghanistan in retaliation to the September 11th attacks in New York. __2001__ (December): Opposition forces led by the US and UK take over control of Kabul. __2005__ (June): The Taliban shot down a US helicopter, killing 16 US troops during a mission to rescue a Navy Seal team in Kunar. __2008__ (September): President Bush sends an extra 4,500 US troops to Afghanistan. __2009__ (December): US President Obama increased the numbers of US troops by 30,000, bringing total to 100,000.

=Concluding Thoughts= Ayanna Bingham: My concluding thoughts about the 2001 Invasion of Afghanistan War is that the United States and Afghanistan governments bothed acted "childish" on each side. First the American government (Bush) wanted to go out of his way and make his government seem superior to Afghanistan. If Afghanistan was weak then nothing would have happened. But the attack on the United States was the start of the 2001 war.

India Daniels: my concluding thoughts about this is that this was is stupid and pointless because GEORGE W BUSH wanted to have power over every one so he launched a airstrike on Afghanistan and they retalliated by blowing up the world trade center and the penagon. this war still goes on today to me it seems like it will never end because every one wants to feel superior to one another.

Marquise B: I feel as though the invasion was needed but it was definately rushed because we were attacked on 9/11 and lanched the invasion 10/7 which is only about a month later. What they should of did was wiat till we fully recovered and by then we could have took our time and think things out more.