Which of the following describes Obama’s views on using force in conflict

Answer Options:

A. Congress's refusal to raise the debt limit caused taxes to be raised on the middle class.

B. President Obama's warning was an effect of members of Congress refusing to raise the debt limit.

C. President Obama's warning caused members of Congress to issue their statements.

D. Congress's failure to raise the debt limit caused the U.S. government to experience a deficit.

Correct  B. President Obama's warning was an effect of members of Congress refusing to raise the debt limit.

Short News Article: President Barack Obama issued a warning about a government shutdown if Congress continues to refuse to raise the debt limit. Since the early 2000s, the U.S. government has had a deficit. This means it has to borrow in order to pay for all its expenses. Meanwhile, members of Congress issued statements today claiming that raising the debt limit will force them to raise taxes on the middle class in the near future.

Explanation: Congress didn't raise the debt limit arguing that raising it would force them to raise taxes on the middle class in a future. This article refers to the 2013 struggle between Democrats and Republicans at the Congress, when the Republicans didn't want to solve the claims of Democratic President of the United States, Barack Obama, about raising debt ceiling.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

the text includes parts of primary-source interviews with enslaved people to illustrate the difficulty of life on a sugar plantation in louisiana.

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