Is the US wrong for getting involved in global issues?

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  1. pwarbi

    pwarbi Senior Investor

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    This is obviously a topic that's going to run and run, so I just thought I'd give you my opinion on it, from over here in the UK. Personally I have no problem with the US getting involved in matters around the world. Your a big country and a respected nation with a lot of power globally so I think it's only right that you do get involved.

    Here in the UK, we also get told a lot of the time that we should just mind our own business and keep out of other countries problems, but these days, the world as become a much smaller place and one country is easily affected by another.
     
  2. Sunflogun

    Sunflogun Well-Known Member

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    I don't think any country is wrong to be involved in global issues, at the same time we need to think how we will get involved, I mean, do we want to participate or do we want to boss around?
     
  3. JR Ewing

    JR Ewing Super Moderator Staff Member

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    A sensible foreign policy aimed at protecting our interests, national defense through a strong military, and protecting our citizens from fraud and harm were what the federal government was meant to do. Not to provide a free, permanent cradle to grave middle class lifestyle for half the citizens at the expense of the other half, and not for the politicians to become an elite ruling class who over tax and over regulate its citizens, and who have created a fourth branch of government to get around that pesky constitution.
     
  4. ScooterBrandon

    ScooterBrandon Senior Investor

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    You know what? As much as the international community likes to pick on both the domestic and foreign policies of the USA, we are lucky to have them as the primary super power of the world. I would much rather have it this way then having countries like China or Russia as the big player.
    The great thing about having an opinion on the USA, whether or not you live there is simply that we can. Look at the way other places treat political discussion and different idea's, mostly with bloodshed and repression.
    So sure we can criticize the bad moves the USA has made, but look at all the amazing things it has given the world.
    USA gave us both the internet and the GPS system for practically for free. These are worth TRILLIONS, they have revolutionized the modern world.
     
  5. Thejamal

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    No, it's not wrong for the US to be involved in global issues.

    Like it or not, the world is basically the size of peanut now. We're the world superpower and have to act like on a global stage. That doesn't mean we go into every conflict to play mediator, but there should not be a question as to our stance in the world.

    To me, that's been one of the weaknesses of the Obama administration foreign policy. We've lost credibility on the global stage and our stance among other countries isn't nearly as strong as it should be.

    I like JR Ewing's point too about us being a deterrent for dictators, religious fanatics, etc, trying to overstep their bounds. The threat of "If we attack X, the US we retaliate" is a pretty dang good way to keep everyone from trying to kill each other.
     
  6. rightct

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    They try to spread everywhere like disease, saying to everyone "Look, we help them because they need it and because we're the best nation in the world!", whereas the reality, is that they do it because they have a gain from it. So many obvious examples around the world...
     
  7. norms options

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    The U.S. should definitely be involved in world issues. I mean it is a global economy and technology has made the world very small in regards to the way we interact with other countries. However, the degree to which we are involved is absurd. We are completely overextended and the government seems to no longer care about the people being shipped all over the world to do the fighting nearly as much as they care about the outcome of the conflict. In addition, how many different wars can we keep going indefinitely and still have the resources at home to protect our own borders??
     
  8. mooray

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    Isn't it obvious? The U.S only gets involved in Middle-East policies only when it has something to gain. There have been numerous times when Uncle Sam has just stood by and watched while thousands, if not millions of people get slaughtered in Africa by tyrants. Remember the Rwanda genocide? Sierra Leone? D.R.C? The USA did nothing about it but when the slightest trouble spews in oil-rich North African countries like Libya and Egypt ,the USA govt is all over the place you would think they live there. The same thing is happening in Middle East.
     
  9. mooray

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    Isn't it obvious? The U.S only gets involved in Middle-East policies only when it has something to gain. There have been numerous times when Uncle Sam has just stood by and watched while thousands, if not millions of people get slaughtered in Africa by tyrants. Remember the Rwanda genocide? Sierra Leone? D.R.C? The USA did nothing about it but when the slightest trouble spews in oil-rich North African countries like Libya and Egypt ,the USA govt is all over the place you would think they live there. The same thing is happening in Middle East. In fact, the whole Middle-East conflict is exaggerated and it is nothing compared to the atrocities happening in some countries like South Sudan, DRC and Burundi. The whole US foreign policy is just wrong. Now there is a migrant crisis in Europe which the U.S is partly blamed for it.
     
  10. JR Ewing

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    The migrant crisis in Europe is largely due to Obama pulling us out of the ME with no SOF with Iraq. And why should we get involved if there is nothing to gain? Why risk American lives and dollars if there is no advantage in doing so? We should choose our battles wisely, and do it right or not at all.
     

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