Thursday, December 8, 2011
The U.S. as the World Police
I believe that the U.S. has a duty to play the role of being the “world police” only to a certain extent. On the one hand, the U.S. has a duty to protect humanitarian interests abroad as it is the most powerful military power in the world. On the other hand, by interfering in these foreign nations it only increase the hate that these nations have for the West especially in countries like Nigeria where the West had taking advantage of the country for hundreds of years. I think that it is a necessary evil to do this. We must protect humanitarian rights, we cannot sit back and watch people die and so if the people in these foreign countries hate us for trying to protect them then so be it. We cannot just do nothing about the situation.
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I like your sentiment and would have probably agreed with it any time up until a year or so before President Obama took office. As we all know, hindsight is truly 20/20. And, in my opinion, I think that the United States has learned a very valuable lesson ever since the whole War on Terror fiasco. Surely we caught Osama, but well after he was powerless. I think we have FAR bigger problems in our own country to tend to than to worry about other societies' problems and suffering. We must now actually Think before we go to bat for these countries that present nothing for us to gain and have not the first clue about the idea of loyalty.
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