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American Foreign Policy
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The U.S. is highly influential in the world. The global reach of the United States is
backed by a $14 trillion economy, approximately 25% of the world’s money
and a defense budget of $711 billion which is more than all the other nations
combined.
Wikipedia
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Goals of American Foreign Policy
to create a more SECURE, DEMOCRATIC, and PROSPEROUS
world for the benefit of the American people and the international
community
US Department of state
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Questions you must ask yourself
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Is America more secure?
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Oklahoma City bombing
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Attack on the USS Cole warship in Yemen
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Simultaneous US Embassy Bombings in 1998
In Kenya In Tanzania
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9/11 Attacks
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Is the World more SECURE?
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Since World War II or has some people put it after the creation of the United
Nations
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Korean War - 1950
3,000,000 deaths
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Iran-Iraq War 1980 - 1988
1,500,00 deaths
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Vietnam War 1959 -1975
4,000,000 deaths
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Second Congo War 1998 - 20034,500,000 deaths
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Are the USA more democratic?
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Gore loses in recount in Florida
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Fraudulous Elections in OHIO?
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When the country held the Presidential election last November, Americans yawned. Barely half the voting age population voted - the
lowest turnout since 1924.
New York Times – May 1989
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Is the World more democratic?
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Democracy in Irak
Since the american invasion approximately 1,000,000 have died, many more since the embargo. US supported, trained and armed Saddam Hussein
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Democracy in Panama
US supports drug dealer to put him in power then invades his country when he renegs.
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Democracy in Iran
America overthrows the democratically elected prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh to install a cruel dictator…the Shah Rezah Pahlavi
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Are the United States more prosperous?
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Millions of Americans lose their homes due to foreclosures
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Do you really think they are more prosperous?
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Unemployment in US is close to 30 million or roughly the population
of Canada
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50 million Americans do not have Health Care
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Is the World more prosperous?
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What do you think?
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Dinner from the dump
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Famine in Ethiopia
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Poverty in South America
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Homelessness in Bangladesh
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So, the goals of American Foreign Policy are again…
to create a more SECURE, DEMOCRATIC, and PROSPEROUS world for the benefit of the American people and the international community
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How do you think they did?
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Colin Powell telling the UN Iraq has weapons of mass destruction
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Colin Powell on WMD in Iraq
A former top aide to Colin Powell says his involvement in the former secretary of state's presentation to the United Nations on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was "the lowest point" in his life.
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Iran Contra Affair
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Oliver North pleads the 5th Amendment
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MAD
Mutually assured destruction (M.A.D.) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two opposing sides would effectively result in the destruction of both the attacker and the defender, becoming thus a war that has no victory nor any armistice but only total destruction
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Dolls are boobytrapped or strewn about in minefields
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Lady Diana tried to ban landmines that killed and maimed children
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Yet the most powerful nations on Earth refuse to sign the ban on
personal landmines
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US is the largest arms dealer in the world
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