Goals for the Day
- Compare and contrast the rhetoric of conflicting ideologies
- Evaluate multiple perspectives on US foreign policy (and continue to develop our own)
Starter 9.14: What was most interesting, surprising, or disturbing about the experience of reading Bin Laden's letter?
Group Work: Rhetorical Analysis of Osama bin Laden's open letter to America.
Whole Class: T-chart
- What are the similarities and differences between Osama bin Laden's and George Bush's rhetoric?
Discuss
- How does each use Aristotelian appeals? (Arguments? Pathos? Ethos is relative to audience?)
- Whose rhetoric is more effective? Why?
- How does our own ideology influence each rhetorical transaction?
What are some conflicting biases on foreign policy?
- Read and annotate "Commit for the Long Run" by Robert Kagan and Ronald D. Asmus
- Read and annotate “A Briefing on the History of Military Interventions” by Dr. Zoltan Grossman
- JOURNAL 9.14: FOREIGN POLICY IDEOLOGY
Answer the following questions in your Digital Comp Books
1. What ideological bias on foreign policy do Kagan and Asmus represent?
2. What recommendations do they make?
3. What ideological bias on foreign policy does Dr. Grossman represent?
4. What recommendations does he make?
Optional: Research
Wikipedia articles of note
Check out:
Dr. Grossman's website: History of Military Interventions