What are the current objectives of U.S. foreign policy?
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TEAM B\n\nTo answer the question you have to understand who is in the administration now and what THEIR ideologies are. Rumsfeld and Cheney formed the so-called "Team B" during the 1970's which had access to CIA information and made its own independent recommendations for foreing policy. Paul Wolfowitz was also part of this group, and later became one of the primary planners for the Iraq invasion. At the time the group was formed, the director of the CIA, William Colby, opposed the concept of Team B, and was fired. G. W. Bush's father supported Team B and succeeded Colby as CIA Director. This group was notorious for making erroneous estimates of Soviet strategy predictions, but was able to at least "get away with" certain objectives during the Iran-Contra scandal in the eighties.\n\nIn the early nineties, this group pushed hard for an economic stronghold in the middle east, primarily to maintain security in the region so that contracts for oil and natural gas -- key constituents of our economy -- could continue to be developed. Israel's security was also a key factor, and members of this group are one in the same with the Israeli lobbying group AIPAC and the American Enterprise Institute. Prior to the Iraq war, Cheney set up an independent group called the office of special plans, picking Ahmed Chalabi, who the CIA had deemed corrupt and unreliable, as a key intel source for Hussein's WMD program. Immediately following 9-11, Cheney asked how we could pin the event on Saddam. \n\nSimply stated, there is a group in Washington who is in almost complete control over US foreign policy; the group's objectives are to maintain economic strength in the middle east through ensuring those nations have leaderships who will work with us on development projects. This may mean regime change, invasions, organized coups, or even diplomacy in some circumstances.\n\nThis may not appear to explain foreign policy completely, since relations with other nations is not mentioned. However, keep in mind that 95% of the current administration's foreign policy relates to the above-described securing of resource-supplying nations, therefore deals mainly with the middle east. Similar mechanisms are in place in parts of South America, but the US has much more established control there.\n\nFor more information, there a few wonderful and very easy to read books on the subject. The books are small and do not get mired in minutia. Surprisingly, one the most insightful is Idiot's Guide to Iraq, which explains not only the background behind the war but why we are involved in the middle east so much to begin with.
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why? what is the objective?
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the policy of the country,\nthe intention to remain a superpower,\nensure your supremacy over others.\n\nBe it Reagan or Bush or anybody else,the RULE to reign wont die.\nthere were the GREEKS,there were the ROMANS,\nthere were the Ottomans ,there were the BRITISH now The USA.\nthats how world history approaches forward.\n\nNot by names and titles.
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1) Announce the goal of ending America's dependency on foreign oil within ten years, by putting money and resources into the development of alternative fuels.\n\n2) Actively work on a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with the goal of reaching a compromise solution within four years.\n\n3) Create a commission to study the question of reparations to the descendants of American slaves.\n\n4) Create a second commission to study reparations to the descendants of America's native peoples.\n\n5) Work with the Congress to draft legislation granting universal health care for all Americans.\n\n6) Work with the Congress on legislation granting equal rights for gay individuals and couples in the U.S.
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Nukes.  That way we don't loose any Americans and the enemy dies
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The United Nations actively pursues anti-American policies and appeases America's enemies, while being largely funded by $3 billion worth of annual American dues. After revealing the depth of rampant corruption in the UN, it is time to recognize the changes in Old Europe and redesign America's alliances that line up with America's national interests. \n\nIf John Kerry and Hillary Clinton have their way, Kofi Annan and Jacques Chirac will gain veto power over American foreign policy. Scared? You should be. It could happen. And in Inside the Asylum, former deputy undersecretary of defense Jed Babbin shows just how it could happen and why the UN deserves the nickname "The Asylum." \n\nIn the Asylum... \n\n* the UN assists international terrorists. Babbin exposes the shocking links between the UN and terrorist organizations. \n\n* The money trail from the UN to Saddam Hussein. It is time to rip the veil from the outrageous Oil-for-Food program-proving that the UN sold its moral legitimacy for oil, stuffed its own pockets at the expense of the Iraqi people, and undermined American pressure on Saddam Hussein: the UN's cash cow. The UN's Oil-for-Food program, provided Saddam Hussein with the means to bribe politicians, to deprive his people of needed food and medicine, and to literally steal billions of dollars. There is even emerging evidence that money from the program might have gone to support al-Qaeda. \n\n• The UN's raid on the American Treasury: dominated by Third World staffers who consider the United States Treasury "the common heritage of mankind." Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, is an anti-American moral relativist who misses no opportunity to arrogate power from the United States to the UN. \n\n* The United Nations and the European Union are morally bankrupt-and open enemies of the United States. France and the United Nations have cost American lives in Iraq by their perverse delaying of American action in the Iraq War. American troops are fighting and dying today because of a terrorist strategy Saddam Hussein developed while France and the United Nations delayed Operation Iraqi Freedom. \n\nThe UN is more of an international criminal than a dispenser of legitimate international law. If America wants to retain its sovereignty and security, it's time to escape from the UN asylum and say goodbye to the false friends of Old Europe. We owe no tribute to the UN and the EU, We should not be ashamed and divided to look after our own defense." \n\nThe United Nations building in Manhattan is an international enclave, no longer American territory. Inside the Asylum is a powerful argument that it's time to reclaim that land for America.
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research government propaganda.  \nresearch contributions made to the war by a country other than US (and show how these events are downplayed by most US history websites).
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1. Don't spend a trillion dollars invading a place like Iraq.\n\n2. Work with the UN to resolve international issues instead of acting unilaterally - it's very disrespectful to other countries.\n\n3. Don't give tax breaks to the wealthiest 1 percent of all Americans - we have a huge deficit.\n\n4. Crack down on coroprate fraud such as Enron.\n\n5. Don't ally with the energy companies in secret meetings to set US energy policy. Aggressively pursue alternative fuels.\n\n6. Maintain strong environmental protections.\n\n7. Sign the Kyoto accord on global warming . . . can you say "hurrican season"?\n\n8. Don't have your vice president leak the name of covert CIA agents such as Valerie Plame.\n\nI could go on.
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Get out of Iraq.\nSend the illegals home.\nBan offshoring of labor.\nInstitute fair trade policies so that everything isn't made in china.\nBan importation of foreign labor to replace Americans.
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I answer proudly to both the liberal and progressive labels. To me the defining goals of liberal politics are (in order of importance):\n-- Equality\n-- Fairness\n-- Freedom
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1) Correctly implemented policy for proper economic growth. Slow growth based on actual production is preferable to boom growth based off of hype. The economy is in good shape. Granted more has to be done now that the economy is on the right track, to cut spending back down in certain areas, but the spending was necessary to properly boost the economy and support the military actions.\n2) Has a focus on homeland security and taking the battle to terrorists instead of giving them more opportunities to attack on American soil.\n3) Sticks to his guns. Follows through. Not every decision is right, but he follows through on actions til conclusion.
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That's a loaded question, and I hope you don't mind taking some time to read this answer as it will have to touch on multiple intertwined subjects.\n\nOur foreign policy and world image should hopefully improve once Bush is out of power. The Democratic party has always been more apt for making friends outside of our shores, and for stroking the ego of international support. This in turn not only bolsters homegrown economics through production and trade, it also strengthens relationships nation to nation should another such war erupt.\n\nNational security? In all truthfulness, our security measures as a nation haven't improved one bit....so I don't see a real change in this. \nIf all you're doing is scaring people with this alert and that alert and you're not truly telling them why, people understand after awhile that all you're doing is crying wolf.\nHopefully something there will change, we need to make our nation secure from much more than just terrorists.\n\nSocial Security = The Governments money cookie jar. It'll be gone in five years or less.The only reason it's still there in the first place is because of the billions upon billions of dollars we're borrowed from the Chinese, and also the rape of the Medicare and Medicaid systems.\nIt's always been nothing but a Governmentally sponsored Ponzi scheme. The last two generations have consistantly paid and are paying taxes on a system that they'll never see a single penny of in return.\n\nEconomic policies? Everything needs to change. I could write a book back in response to this, but I'm just to leave it at this : Everything needs to change, starting with the mindset of the American people.\nWe need more entrepeneurs in this nation, we don't need more lazy employees.\n\nHope that helps!
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USIA conducts international educational and cultural exchanges, broadcasting, and information programs.\n\nUSIA Mission:\nThe mission of USIA is to understand,inform, and influence foreign publics in promotion of the U.S. national interest, and to broaden the dialogue between Americans and U.S. institutions, and their counterparts abroad. Specifically, USIA works:\n- To explain and advocate U.S. policies in terms that are credible and meaningful in foreign cultures;\n- To provide information about the official policies of the United States, and about the people, values, and institutions which influence those policies;\n- To bring the benefits of international engagement to American citizens and institutions by helping them build strong long-term relationships with their counterparts overseas;\n- To advise the President and U.S. government policy-makers on the ways in which foreign attitudes will have a direct bearing on the effectiveness of U.S. policies.
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It is my impression it is a plan of containment, and limited action.  Diplomatic pressure is most likely not going to be effective.  Some form of action will be required but it will be a group of nations involved with limited military involvement.
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I'd give him a 6.5.  Plusses: foreign policy; economic policy (especially the tax cuts), attempting to deal with the Social Security mess.  Minuses: religious posturing, stem cell research veto, no control of domestic spending.
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American foreign policy is largely run by the military.  There is a fundamental disconect.  Bear with me a moment.  The act of war is not an end in itself. It is merely a small part of a larger process - governing.  However, America is very bad at the final phase of conquering - the civil administration.  It's a little like getting a hockey team that can get the puck into the goal area but simply cannot get the actual goal.  However close they get, they will always fail as they can not achieve getting the puck into the net.  So it is with American  wars.  \n\nThe failure to place an effective government (Iraq, Somalia, Vietnam) means the war never actually concludes - and eventually the military will fades as it must - and any gain is lost.  Had an effective government (any government) been established in Iraq the pressure from the military would have been eased.  Instead this basic disconnect continues and the American effort will inevitably end badly.\n\nExamples of how it could be done can be seen in the Roman Empire, the French Colonisation of french African states, the British Empire and the Chinese expansions of the last  3000 years.  All have had enormous success, and have included in their model civil governance. Additionally there was a strong will of the colonizing nationals to participate in the new regime - as civil administrators, settlers, farmers and shop keepers.  How many Americans do you see queueing up to set up shops in Baghdad? It simply isn't a part of the US psyche. They'd rather be in California.\n\nWhile the military dominate foreign policy (and ironically the CIA), there will simply never be a solution. It doesn't matter how big or technological the military are - it never has.\n\nJFS
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there job is to protect the US. So far it looks like they can do whatever they want.