Needs Help example essay topic

They question of how the United States should conduct itself in international affairs does not have a single "correct" answer, and it is open to a wide room of debate. The U. S influences the world militarily, economically, politically, and by the providing of aid to those in need., that being "right" or "wrong" is fully opinion. Having power, and the ability to project that power, tempts the powerful into using it. A lot of nations are powerful (India, China, Russia to a lesser degree) but lack the ability to project that power. Since the USA is so powerful when we use our military, it is always against someone weaker.

Even in situations with nothing to gain (Somalia) one can wind up with a bloody nose. We went to feed the starving victims of the civil war in Somalia, identified war as the problem, and tried to set peace. Unfortunately the guys fighting were not ready to stop, or give up their power. Some people think that we should not have even gone to Somalia, that it was none of our business.

Now, what would have happened if we did not try to save all those starving people? All the humanitarian countries and the starving people themselves would not be too happy with us. As the world power we are expected to help the less fortunate, even if we will lose something by doing so. But, we don't always do what we are expected to do. In Desert Storm we could have taken Saddam Hussein out of power and taken control over Iraq with little trouble. There were many allies inside Iraq that were going to do this with our help, mainly the Shiites and the Kurds, but we did not help.

Why? Because our other, more powerful, allies did not want to prolong the war. We have left would-be allies hanging with no support. The point is, we can't be on the same team as everybody, and we should not do what the other countries that have power want us to do. We need to make our own rules, rules based on freedom and Human rights. The United States should propose and lead an effort to revamp the UN (United Nations) or scuttle it and start over.

The rule of law civilized man, law protects property and lives. What is needed is a world body with power but no interests other than upholding world law for the betterment of all. A world government, in some form, has to come out of necessity. We should be its supporter, and help bring it into being. We can be the birthplace of freedom, again. Providing aid to countries that are in need is expected from us because we have the most to give.

Without our aid a lot of countries would just fall apart. We don't, however, give aid to every country that needs it, because we are not capable of doing so. This angers a lot of people, but it simply is not possible to help everybody that needs help, so we have to choose who to help. How do we choose who to help?

It's based on our own best interests. We are not going to lend billions of dollars to a communist country, because communism goes against everything we believe in and everything our country stands for; instead will lend it to whoever is opposing them. When the Soviets tried to invade Afghanistan we gave the Afghans weapons, money, and information. We even trained their soldiers. That does not mean we agreed with the Afghans, we just didn't want communism to spread to more parts of the world -- threatening our own way of life. We were only thinking of ourselves, when we should think of others.

Now that communism is on the decline, drowning in the flood of democracy, we should start aiding the small non-powerful countries become powerful, and democratic. Every country should be either with or against us, no in-between. We need to aid one country at a time, build a powerful democratic alliance and forget about the people who are against us. Then, when all the countries that are with us are powerful enough to handle themselves we can start our advance on the countries that are against us, converting each to democracy as peacefully as possible.

The Unites States is the pin holding the world's economy together. If the United States economy went into another depression it would effect many other countries economies either driving them into a depression or stimulating them. Bush wanting another war with Iraq with our economy being as low as it is, is a stupid idea. Waging a war costs billions of dollars, billions of dollars that our government does not have. So how do they get the money they need to wage this war? They borrow it by selling bonds to the public.

The government has to pay interest on these bonds, making them have to pay out more money that they do not have. Our economy is a free market, meaning the government keeps its hands off as much as possible. The people are free to produce, sell, buy, and distribute products as they want to. Many other countries do not have free markets; instead their government regulates how much is produced, how much each person gets, etc. China is trying to switch over from this type of economic system to a free market system, but without a democratic government it is proving to be harder than expected. Other countries want their economy to be as strong and successful as ours, but with their government it is just not possible.

Why should we care? Its not us right? Wrong. We export billions of dollars worth of goods each year, mostly to the countries with more economic stability. If we had more people to buy our goods, we could sell more goods, have more money to make more goods and sell even more. But its not like that, small countries with bad economics (a lot of African countries for example) do not have enough money to buy our big 61" TV's, so we are not making any money off them.

If we could help countries to boost their economies it would benefit us and them, but we cannot simply give them money and expect it to fix their economy. They have to want it for themselves and actually work at trying to make it better. We should not help bring up the economy of any country by doing it for them, we have our own economy to deal with. What we should do is show them how to do it; give them advice. If we see that the country is trying by itself and making progress then we can lend them assistance or money. Lend them money, not give it to them.

If you give somebody something they tend to want more, but if you tell them they have to pay it back they don't want to put themselves in a debt that they are unable to pay back. The Untied States and the rest of the world should not be too far apart. We should aim to effect it as much as we can, we need to flood the world with our influence, make all the people of the world know that we want them to be like us, but do not force them to be. Allow them to choose for themselves, and most likely they will choose to be free. If their government does not want them to be free, help them become free. If we are successful in peacefully getting the world to agree that being different is ok, we can have a world without war.

People say there cannot be a world without war, I disagree. A lifetime is a short span, in a cosmic sense. The earth has been here much longer than we have. It has known ages with no war, where it was only kill to eat.

Humans, perhaps, have evolved beyond the need to kill each other to eat, but not beyond the need to kill. So I think that in time, maybe a few hundred years, millennia even, if we are still around, that there will be no war and people can live freely in a democratic world based on human rights and freedom.