American Foreign Policy

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

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

Questions you must ask yourself

Is America more secure?

Oklahoma City bombing

Attack on the USS Cole warship in Yemen

Simultaneous US Embassy Bombings in 1998

In Kenya In Tanzania

9/11 Attacks

Is the World more SECURE?

Since World War II or has some people put it after the creation of the United

Nations

Korean War - 1950

3,000,000 deaths

Iran-Iraq War 1980 - 1988

1,500,00 deaths

Vietnam War 1959 -1975

4,000,000 deaths

Second Congo War 1998 - 20034,500,000 deaths

Are the USA more democratic?

Gore loses in recount in Florida

Fraudulous Elections in OHIO?

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

Is the World more democratic?

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

Democracy in Panama

US supports drug dealer to put him in power then invades his country when he renegs.

Democracy in Iran

America overthrows the democratically elected prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh to install a cruel dictator…the Shah Rezah Pahlavi

Are the United States more prosperous?

Millions of Americans lose their homes due to foreclosures

Do you really think they are more prosperous?

Unemployment in US is close to 30 million or roughly the population

of Canada

50 million Americans do not have Health Care

Is the World more prosperous?

What do you think?

Dinner from the dump

Famine in Ethiopia

Poverty in South America

Homelessness in Bangladesh

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

How do you think they did?

Colin Powell telling the UN Iraq has weapons of mass destruction

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.

Iran Contra Affair

Oliver North pleads the 5th Amendment

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

Dolls are boobytrapped or strewn about in minefields

Lady Diana tried to ban landmines that killed and maimed children

Yet the most powerful nations on Earth refuse to sign the ban on

personal landmines

US is the largest arms dealer in the world