Foreign Affairs In 20th
My personal view on this issue is that
America should pay equal attention to
both domestic and foreign affairs. You
cannot just focus on one without the
other because they intermingle into the
same issue. For instance, America’s
businesses have branched out all across
the world and if those places of
business are not ensured safety then both
the economy of that particular country
as well as our own is affected. Adding
onto that, America is not a
self-sufficient country. We have to import oil,
food, and much of our
merchandise. The days of when Americans worked in
sweatshops is long gone, for
we now usually rely on overpopulated and
underdeveloped countries to do the
dirty work. Internally, America has a very
strange economic system. While some
families own massive amounts of wealth,
others barely make enough to get by. The
rich get richer and the poor get
poorer. Competitiveness and greed are actually
useful tools in today’s
America. The American life has now switched focus from
being a good person to
making money. People who do not consume or produce goods
useful to society
are viewed as threats to the way that Americans live. These
morality issues
of human liberties and rights are blatantly ignored because
we’ve been raised
to do so. Instead of the borguise making efforts to assist
the poor, we are
trained to think that they must be incompetent of doing
anything, a drug
addict, or somehow made the choice to be poor. This helps the
borguise to
turn their cheeks more easily and sleep more soundly. In terms of
drugs,
America has given the poor, inner city people, no choice but to
contribute to
drug trafficking and distribution. Do people actually believe that
somebody
can be content with a minimum wage job their whole lives? It’s not a
matter
of these people making the right decision, because they don’t have
one.
It seems as though the lower classes of people would rise above by
working
harder, but why should they be forced to do so? It is my personal
beliefs as a
socialist and as a subjective viewer of the dilemmas facing
today’s youth that"tough luck" is not the solution to poverty. Not only have we
become
inhumane in our "paper chasing", but the very spirit of being rich
would
turn brother against brother. Yet while we have major problems with
somebody
dabbling in drugs, there is no evil in our life’s purpose to
"succeed" in
being better than others? Externally, America is now shoving our
moral,
economic, and political beliefs down the throats of the world’s
countries. To
some extent we should be involved in terms of protecting human
rights. Hence the
brutality which we have not interfered with in Afghanistan.
Even the Soviet
Union before it’s breakup warned the Afghan’s to cease
their medieval
practices. The United States had direct information about the
persecution of the
Jewish community in Germany, yet did nothing until we
we’re directly involved
in the war. We even regulated Jewish immigration
pre-war. When human rights are
violated, America doesn’t care unless it
affects the almighty dollar sign.
Which is where the world policing comes
into effect. America does not have the
right to tell other countries how to
govern their people. For instance, look at
the economic fallout of Russia.
Now how exactly have these people been
liberated? I only see an economic and
political system that does not function
for this region, being forced upon
them. The Soviet Union was not half as
corrupt as we would like to think so.
Women we’re given equal rights as men
and all colors and ethnic groups we’re
given equality. Now, Russia, because of
our interference, no longer has the
means to finish it’s "cleaning up
project" which the U.S.S.R. had planned to
make bold new environmental
standards with. On top of that, people now have
little, if any, money. In the
end, I believe that it would be in our best
interests to weigh out the need of
both domestic and foreign affairs more
equally. The main problem that I see is
economics and how the poor are
treated inhumanely. Although it would take a
massive governmental altering
(revolution) to solve this problem, I believe it
is in the best interests of
all people to face this problem now. While the
people are spoon-fed ideals
that emphasize individuality, they are constantly
being put under restriction
and censorship. In my personal opinion, I believe
that the United States of
America is no longer a government, but rather an
economy.