<p>Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.</p>
<p>For a variety of reasons, people often make choices that have negative results. Later, they regret these choices, finding out too late that bad choices can be costly. On the other hand, decisions that seem completely reasonable when they are made may also be the cause of later disappointment and suffering. What looks like a wonderful idea at one time can later seem like the worst decision that could have been made. Good choices, too, can be costly.</p>
<p>Are bad choices and good choices equally likely to have negative consequences? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.</p>
<p>Your Response
<strong><em>"Hindsight is 20/20." Often times, people are forced to make a decision and have to live with the consequences. It's easy to question someone's judgement after the fact but when people are at a crossroads in their lives, it is difficult to decide what to do. There's always a good choice and a bad choice to be made but more often then not, they lead to equally undesirable results.
*</em></strong><strong>In 1944, World War II was raging and the United States was in the thick of it. President Truman had recently taken office only to be met with a decision that would change the course of warfare forever. He could either alllow a group of scientists to undergo a secret investigation into the possibilities of nuclear bombs or continue fighting the belligerent and unyielding Japan. Truman could sign onto the Manhatten Project and possibly save millions of American lives or keep the world free from intense, earth-shattering nuclear explosions. President Truman chose to use nuclear bombs which seemed to be the "good choice" because so many American lives would be spared but the other option may have not created a watershed of nuclear research and the deaths of millions of innocent people today.
*</strong><strong>After 9/11, George W. Bush decided to invade Iraq in order to eliminate the threat of terrorism on the United States. Bush had the option of invading Iraq or possibly not go to war and solve the issue through diplomacy. Bush took the "good choice" because he didn't want anymore Americans to die but many people today believe the "bad choice" of not invading Iraq was more appropriate. This is untrue because terrorists don't respond to anything that outsiders say because they are firmly committed to their religion. Either option leads to an ever increasing terroist threat on the United States and the world.
**</strong>Sometimes it's difficult to face the reality that good and bad choices are equally likely to have negative consequences. In both the Iraq War and WWII, Bush and Truman had to make a decision that had no right answer. They made their choices and the world must live their decisions.</p>
<p>Please tell me what my essay score should be/ give advice...i'll be interested if it matches the online grader.</p>