Are you sick of the
United
States acting as the world police man? Well
I sure am. We give and give, and all the other countries do is take and take.
Then, when we finally ask for some form of help, they spit in our face. But
this is not necessarily because we are the world police men.
Who asked you?: The role of world police came out of the
fires of WW II and the cold war.
America was one of only two
superpowers seeking control as a world hegemony. However, to achieve that role
and maintain it, we had to be the protectors of Europe from the
Soviet Union.
America would fight proxy wars to
stop the spread of Communism and its derivatives. But, the Soviet Union
collapsed and
Russia
and its Satellite countries democratized to varying degrees. As such the
United States
became the sole super power on this planet. There was a catch though. The
results of the
U.S. becoming
the sole superpower imposed responsibilities on the
United States that it never asked for.
We were forced to police the world.
Internal politics: Currently we have the same Democrats and
Republicans in Congress and in the halls of
Washington D.C.
who served during the cold war. They never lost the taste for power that the
other countries gave
America
as their protector. So the idea was hatched to continue the role of world
police. But it also included the foolish concept that we could export democracy
(under the assumption that democracies don't fight each other). Started in
President Bush seniors’ administration and continued all the way through to the
current Obama administration, we have gone to war one too many times in the
name of peace. Though the result is just more death and conflict. These old
guard members are your Neo-Conservatives and your progressive liberals. Both
agree with the idea that "we" Americans have a duty to save the world
from itself. A modern "white mans burden" if you will. They want us
to interfere with anything they deem wrong, from human rights issues to
lawlessness. The problem is
America's
values and the worlds values don't necessarily match up.
World reaction: At this point in time, the world is pissed
off. We have been caught spying on our allies. This includes wire tapping the
phones of allied world leaders. Our Navy is being stretched thin to serve as an
interdiction force to pirates and to fend off a possible threat from
China (who is
economically dependant on us). Then we get bashed for our tactics in the war on
terror. The government listens to those critics, changes tactics and then when
more of our troops get hurt, they change them again. In short, the world
complains, then we adjust, and then we either sacrifice blood and treasure or
are excoriated again.
Conclusion: We are wasting our time. The Navy should project
power, but not as some police force. Our Army is not cannon fodder for others
wars. And some of these people really should not even get our help.
Syria has Al
Quada on one side and a dictator on the other. Yet we help Al Quada because
they call themselves rebels. Yup, the same group who carried out the 9/11
attacks is receiving aid from our own government. All this is my opinion, but let’s
stop dealing with the bull crap. Stop giving money to countries and people who
plan only to make our lives miserable. Stop giving money to dictatorships and
groups that want
America
out of the picture. If we should go to war, or to fight in general, it should
be a war of defense and defense alone. Let other nations with foolish ideas of
being a world power deal with the messes and see where it gets them.
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