Advocacy #2

The purpose of my advocacy project is to evoke more public concern regarding American foreign policy in Syria. I would also encourage the American people, my audience, to be more critical of hawkish politicians on both sides of the aisle.

 My partner would be the Gatestone Institute. I chose the Gatestone Institute because they support a strong public knowledge of foreign affairs. From the Gatestone Institute website:

Gatestone Institute, a non-partisan, not-for-profit international policy council and think tank is dedicated to educating the public.

I think these ideas would gain the most traction as a video. A video is most useful because it's accessible and easily shareable. Other modes may be more intimate, but a video would reach more people and it would perhaps get a more widespread conversation started.

I will primarily be using the rhetorical strategies of pathos and logos. I will use pathos to get the audience to wonder why Trump took the action he did. I'm thinking of using footage of helpless victims in Syrian government gas attacks. And perhaps more footage of President Trump choking on words justifying the missile strike.