What gives the U.S. The right to consider themselves police of the world ? Should we care?
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Well, that's a complicated question and it's not possible to answer it in a paragraph. The US does have military presence in nearly every country on earth. Sometimes it's by our choice, and sometimes it's by the other country's choice. It's difficult to say whether it's good or bad because there are a variety of reasons we are in particular countries. For example, we are helping to protect South Korea from the North Korean government. But I think we have no legitimate reason to be in Iraq.
993108
No. We are policing the world too much and ourselves not enough.
467187
The US has an answer for every problem that can crop up. We pay specialists to sit around dreaming up problems with world currencies, just so we will have the answer, if and when that problem should come up. So the short answer is, we police the world because we have the means, the motive and the opportunity...
544944
the question is why is it that the US can do anything while the others need to have their permission beforehand...
660894
I think it is because power and authority corrupts some people. Police officers have a lot of power over citizens and citizens have little recourse if you have no witnesses if a cop does something wrong to you. Many other people have power and authority that abuse it. Politicians, doctors, teachers, military personnel, supervisors, managers, big company CEO's, etc. Just to name a few. That's just the way it is.\n\nThe only way we can protect ourselves, is to protect our rights. Particularly the right to keep and bear arms, the 2nd amendment, ensures that we as Americans can protect the other rights that we have.
193611
Do you really think the US beaurocrats and politicians would allow that to happen?  We aren't a super power because we sit back and twiddle our thumbs while others beat us out on something.  We'd find some reason to sanction them long before they surpassed us.
670300
The US needs to take care of it's own interests.  If we don't, we are no longer our own nation.
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i think it depends on the case.  i think we should focus on more humanitarian aid rather than military intervention or military aid.  its probably fair to say every country has enough guns without us sending them some more for their cause.\n\nthe idea too that we are world's police implies that we are always fighting the good fight and, just ask south america, we are more often than not fighting for what we think will work out best for us in the short term.  there are numerous cases of over-throwing democracies either directly with our  military or through funding and channeling of arms, and setting up dictators in their place.  it would be much harder to say we shouldn't be policing the world if in fact we were fighting for what was best for the people of those countries instead.\n\nin cases of genocide i think we should be stepping in, and much faster than we have in the past, and doing whatever needs to be done to bring a stop to it.
24791
does this question really need an answer? as a law abiding citizen, i am shocked at your callous nature. police men and women risk their lives every day protecting our streets and keeping our communities safe. if they want to take an extra few minutes to wipe the powder from jelly donuts off their uniforms, let them. if they can't call you back because they have three chocolate eclairs stuffed between their fat lips, fine. if they have just opened up a fresh box of ho hos, give them an extra minute or two to enjoy the aroma. \n\nyou don't happen to wear a sweater vest, do you?
789946
I am an American citizen first....\nI don't care about military dominance, but \nI want to be safe in my own country...
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The legal system is not solely devoted to protecting individual rights.  It also regulates privileges, agencies, corporations, etc.\n\nWhich right of law-abiding citizens personal peace and security is being violated by the American legal system that you are referring to?  This question is too vague.
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I think we should take care of our own before we worry about other countries.\n\n\ndp
886482
Here here!  Not our problem.  We police the world way too much from the US while we have a lot of our own problems.  Like our ridiculous borders.  If the real reason we were in Iraq was to make sure we didn't get attacked by terrorists, then we'd also be taking our borders seriously.
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The US is one of the most powerfull contries in the world. And with great power comes great responsibliy. The USA is just trying to make the world a better place, and they want to spread demcracy. The US does not mean any harm, there just trying to prevent nuclear war.
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I feel they have every right to self defense just as any other country in the world.  Remember, the US isn't one to police the world in terms of nukes.  The US is the only country that has ever used it as a weapon in war time. No other country has.  The US is just another landmass on the map.  If one country can have mass killing weapons, then everyone else has the right to defend themselves as well.
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First, understand the Monroe Doctrine, formulated by President Monroe: that the US is the dominant power in the Americas, and that European powers should not interfere in and dominate the countries in North and South America.\n\nThe Roosevelt Collary is that the US would become a police power in the region, and that the US *would* interfere. It's related to the statement about speaking softly and carrying a big stick.\n\nIt was replaced by FDR, with the Good Neighbor Policy, in 1934.
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Most Americans have great respect for everyone who is rational, productive, and self-sufficient. This also means anyone who does you harm should be served justice in the interest of protecting free principles.\n\nThe problem is that everyone BUT Americans seem to eat up whatever the media says, or they lack the education to realize that Americans are like any other human being. We live for our happiness and productive achievement, and we highly value our liberty and security.\n\nAny actions we take are a result of that love for freedom and that moral pursuit. We do not tolerate socialism, facism, or totalitarianism, but rather open and mutually beneficial relationships and trade.