Due to their desire to gain economic assets and spread their ideals, the United States has obtained a reputation of forcefully administering their beliefs and attempting to mediate relations to their preference in other countries. Even if these endeavors have been reasonable in past years, political and financial developments in the world and in the U.S have made them increasingly unfavorable to undertake-i.e. they have led to a gradual withdrawal of national allies and universal beginnings of anti-Americanism. It is evident that these repercussions are particularly resonant in the Middle East. Opposing Viewpoints in Context, an authentic and reliable information database, has much information about the Iraqi wars and how the world’s view of
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Therefore, in order to regain the global prominence they used to have, the United States of America should cease giving monetary support to and interfering with nations not their own. The U.S’ foreign relations are negatively affected when they enforce their democratic beliefs in other countries. While many American citizens think that their nation is universally acknowledged as a virtuous and upstanding nation which does not allow most ethical transgressions to go unpunished, a great deal of evidence from their involvement in the Middle East substantiates that this is not the case. In a poignant letter to then- President George Bush and the democratic party on the subject of the American occupation of Afghanistan, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an Afghan leader, declares that the soldiers stationed in hs country are a major hindrance: “People see that the Americans are acting as if they are the conquerors of Afghanistan...crush and wipe out forces which …show more content…
Many Americans currently assume that their country is in possession of largely comfortable amounts of capital and a sizable treasury because of their ostensible power and economic profits from their smart investments. However, this presumption is regretfully incorrect. Most research done on American finances shows that a debt of nearly $20 trillion has accumulated as of 2017: “The numbers at the end of [2016] showed this portion of the debt to be [$19.8 trillion]” (Crapo). It is evident from the U.S’ negative financial circumstances that they are in no position to donate sizeable amounts of money to other countries when they can scarcely support themselves. America’s undoing, in this context, will result from their continuation of their misspense of well-earned capital on nations whose use of the benefactions they receive is questionable at best. One may argue this because it is discernible that many countries that the U.S donates to do not use the money given to them as intended. Mark Thomas presses that America should not donate to other countries because “[they give] $2.5 billion in military aid to Colombia, which has the worst human rights record” (Thomas). This insinuates that the U.S is squandering their money on Columbia (and other countries) since they will not use the money they have been given in the way America wishes. For these reasons, it can be
Therefore, in order to regain the global prominence they used to have, the United States of America should cease giving monetary support to and interfering with nations not their own. The U.S’ foreign relations are negatively affected when they enforce their democratic beliefs in other countries. While many American citizens think that their nation is universally acknowledged as a virtuous and upstanding nation which does not allow most ethical transgressions to go unpunished, a great deal of evidence from their involvement in the Middle East substantiates that this is not the case. In a poignant letter to then- President George Bush and the democratic party on the subject of the American occupation of Afghanistan, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an Afghan leader, declares that the soldiers stationed in hs country are a major hindrance: “People see that the Americans are acting as if they are the conquerors of Afghanistan...crush and wipe out forces which …show more content…
Many Americans currently assume that their country is in possession of largely comfortable amounts of capital and a sizable treasury because of their ostensible power and economic profits from their smart investments. However, this presumption is regretfully incorrect. Most research done on American finances shows that a debt of nearly $20 trillion has accumulated as of 2017: “The numbers at the end of [2016] showed this portion of the debt to be [$19.8 trillion]” (Crapo). It is evident from the U.S’ negative financial circumstances that they are in no position to donate sizeable amounts of money to other countries when they can scarcely support themselves. America’s undoing, in this context, will result from their continuation of their misspense of well-earned capital on nations whose use of the benefactions they receive is questionable at best. One may argue this because it is discernible that many countries that the U.S donates to do not use the money given to them as intended. Mark Thomas presses that America should not donate to other countries because “[they give] $2.5 billion in military aid to Colombia, which has the worst human rights record” (Thomas). This insinuates that the U.S is squandering their money on Columbia (and other countries) since they will not use the money they have been given in the way America wishes. For these reasons, it can be