US Foreign Policy

The President of the United States is ultimately responsible for conducting foreign policy, but the Department of State, headed by the Secretary of State, has primary responsibility for foreign affairs/

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Bush administration has been carrying out secret reconnaissance missions to learn about nuclear, chemical and missile sites in Iran in preparation for possible airstrikes there, journalist Seymour Hersh said Sunday. The effort has been under way at least since last summer, Hersh said on CNN's "Late Edition." In an interview on the same program, White House Communications Director Dan Bartlett said the story was "riddled with inaccuracies."

Many people who have seriously studied the situation would say, 'YES'. There are many factors involved. First, the US is the world's largest supplier of armament - e.g. , guns, rockets, tanks, explosives, etc. We'll generally sell stuff to anyone who wants to buy it, and we did an AWFUL lot of that back in the day, especially if you came to us and said, 'Please give us guns to kill Commies with', like the Iraqis did, the Iranians did, the Afghans did, most south American dicatorships, most African dictatorships, and so on.

We've got our nose in a lot of other country's business. Many of the people of those countries don't appreciated that. Whether it's democracy vs communism, Christian vs Moslem, Moslem vs Jew, Hindu vs Moslem or whatever, we stick out noses in and tell everbody what to do. Much of the Islamic terrorist argument, whether valid or not in a religious sense, stems from the US military presence in countries with a strong Islamic faith. For example, the huge US military buildup in Saudi Arabia during and right after "Desert Storm" in the early 90s ticked a lot of Muslims off. It's kinda like, how would we like it if a bunch of Muslims guys came in and set up camp in the Vatican, or parked their camels in the aisles of the National Cathedral in Washington?

They also believe that we try to force Western things on them, like freedom, equal rights, education for girls, rap music, belly shirts, and Dancing With The Stars. This makes them very angry.

Whether or not you think they have any valid argument is beside the point - a bunch of really angry people, who we gave guns to, don't like us very much.

Roosevelt's foreign policy was to increase the prestige and influence of the United States around the world and to make it a global power. One example that he included in the policy was the establishment of the Panama Canal.

Answer 1
Ever since WWII the U.S. has made a special point of extending it's umbrella of protection to Israel with anyone and everyone being "on notice" that Israel will receive U.S. support up to and including intervention if necessary. Israel is also considered a U.S. "client state" But many sense that Israel acts on U.S. interests in many cases.

Some also believe that when Israel survival interests and U.S. policy coincide, things happen; Israeli bombing of nuclear construction in Syria, and in Iraq some time ago. Similarly, if UN and U.S. can't get Iran "on board" with nuclear nonproliferation policies, you can probably expect Israel to take out Iranian nuclear sites, alone or in concert with U.S.

Answer 2
The United States supports Israel, Egypt, and Palestine. The United States is also prepared to support and aide any Arab country (like Egypt) that is willing to trade violence and antagonism for peace.

The United States support for the State of Israel is the strongest of the three comes from a variety of sources. Israel has cooperated with the United States on diplomatic issues, military and intelligence exchanges, large amounts of trade, and significant technological investment. In addition there a numerous Americans who support the State of Israel because of religious convictions on top of the already-listed reasons.

Israel and the United States started on friendly terms with the United States approving the 1947 Partition Plan. However, until the Six-Day War of 1967, the United States did not see Israel as a country that would exist in the long-term because of Arab belligerence against the State. After Israel's stunning victory in that war, the United States became Israel's primary Western Ally and began to trade technologies, both civilian and military, with Israel. The United States government, therefore takes a pro-Israel stance in international politics and is often seen as Israel's backer. As a result, the United States opinion on the conflict is often harsher on Palestinian Terrorism than the Israeli Occupation.

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Mussolini wanted to make Italy into a renowned superpower - rich, resourceful, with a super army so that she could get hold of more resources. He wanted her to be feared, respected etc,,

For Clinton, foreign policy was a mixed bag. He sent troops into Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1993 in an attempt to capture a local warlord. That operation included the "Blackhawk Down"* incident and was a miserable failure and embarrassment to the U.S. In 1994, he sent troops into Haiti to prop up the administration of duly elected Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Clinton also twice sent U.S. troops into the former Yugoslavia to stop the "ethnic cleansing" perpetrated by the Serbs against local Muslims. Charges of war crimes were later pursued. But perhaps his biggest gaffe was, because of Somalia, he, and other First World nations, declined to send troops into Rwanda to stop the genocide there in 1994. More than 1 million Tutsis and Hutus were slain in internecine fighting in about three months. Also in 1994, Clinton negotiated the Nuclear Accords with North Korea. At the time, North Korea agreed to give up aspirations of developing nuclear weapons in exchange for assistance with their energy needs. In Iraq, Clinton continued the economic sanctions put in place by George H.W. Bush, but were seen as largely ineffectual and contributed to the deaths of more than 100,000 people. Clinton also cultivated the notion that Iraq had "weapons of mass destruction" (WMD) and was likely to deploy them or make them available to terrorists, organized crime, or drug traffickers.

While American policy did more than is perhaps generally, realized to preserve China from classic imperialism, it still fell short.

The foreign policy of the United States affected actions because it caused different interactions to take place between the United States and China.

America's basic foreign policy has been that America must defend its foreign interests related to trade and security. The main foreign policy position opposed to this is called isolationism.

WARS AND COVERT OPERATIONS

<quote>terrorism effect the us because, 9-11 (which is today)

has caused us to be in war for 7 years now! 9-11 was caused by people from Iraq

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don't forget - the revolutionary war itself was a terroristic fight using guerrilla warfare.

The theory is that leaders strive for peace while also keeping other nations aware of its military power. Teddy Roosevelt said to 'walk softly but carry a big stick". It is something that the US still does today.

Absolutely. Contrary to internet myths, the president has a strong relationship with Israel and has treated Israel as an important ally. Some Republicans, trying to get the Jewish vote, have claimed the president is anti-Israel, but there is no evidence to support this. There is, however, evidence that the current leader of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu dislikes President Obama and has aligned himself with conservative Republicans. Not everyone in Israel agrees with this, however. That said, it should also be noted that the president supports a two-state solution in the middle east and believes both countries (Israel and the future Palestinian state) should live side-by-side, in peace and security. This has also been the belief of several other US presidents, including President Clinton and President George W. Bush.

The people generally wanted to stay out of it. Roosevelt wanted to enter it as soon as possible. its called isolation or nutrality which means you are separate and stay away from foreign affairs

The United States suffered few casualties and was the richest nation in the world.

The Soviet Union suffered enormous loss of life and damage to its cities.

China was and is run by a communist party.

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Well, the Roosevelt Corollary stated that the United States would pay off the debts of Latin American countries in order to keep Europe out. Roosevelt feared that European powers would loan money to these countries and thus become involved in the western hemisphere (a violation of the Monroe Doctrine). Because of this, this was an extension of the Monroe Doctrine, and became a part of the US foreign policy.
The Roosevelt corollary is important because it added to the Monroe Doctrine in matters of foreign military actions.

The United States didn't join the League of Nations because some Americans, including senators and other government officials, disliked the idea of the League of Nations, because it went against U.S. policies of isolationism.

During the years of 1930-1941 the goals of American foreign policy has changed. They have been struggling with the balance of isolationism and intervention. So instead of getting involved in the war in Europe they just been finding all kinds of ways they can help but not get involved such as trading. But there are reasons to why the policy started as little change then moved on to a more heavy change and most of them came from Franklin D Roosevelt's decisions also the Japanese

First it began with the Good Neighbor Policy which was established by Franklin D Roosevelt and it was the central part of getting America to promote better relations with the Latin Americans and prevent further conflict with them by non intervention and non interference. The Good Neighbor Policy was also to change America from a world power country to a regional power. It interest and activities confined exclusively to the western hemisphere.

Roosevelt's decisions got us into the war because the people did not what anything to do with the war they even took a poll whether to get involved in the war(Doc E), most of the questions had "NO" for the unanimous answer but FDR kept insisting on making all kinds of acts and bills which would allow them to help England in some kind of way and not get involved such as the Lend Lease Bill which give England money and arms also America gave England 50 destroyers in return we get access to eight valuable defensive base sites. Also Congress had passed the neutrality act (Doc C) that told the people no cruising in war zones and no trading to both sides this was to prevent Americans from harm's way but when armed merchant ships used, no more neutrality act because they were told to shoot on site so this is just begging Europe to let America get involved in the war. The cash/n/carry got rid of the people's concerns of credit and not getting paid so now the buyers had to come to the trader with the many and they can carry out the product.

The Japanese played an important role in changing our American foreign policy because they ignored and blasted away to every treaty we had set up with them (Doc A) such as the Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounced aggressive war which made it illegal so you were only allowed to defend yourself also the Nine Power Treaty which reduced the amount of arms and ships also it endorsed China's open door policy which means they were to respect its independence and territorial administrative integrity. But the big issue was that Japan refused to get out of China even though we asked them to and they attacked when no one least expected which was on "Black Sunday" December 7, 1941 the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor which caused about three thousand American casualties. This event angered the congress so when it was time to vote whether to go to war the senate and house voted yes, the unofficial war has just became official at this point.

The real question to all this information is why did these goals change? These goals changed because Hitler was becoming too much of a threat and eventually it would come to America at one point. If England falls then there is a chance that America might fall so FDR spent $37 billion dollars to increase our defense. Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill gave a speech to the people about the end results of the war for when they win and the basically said that they will not change nothing not even territorial changes (Doc H).

It was the policy of isolation an example was the Manchurian Crisis even though the League of Nations got involved they were useless due to the fact America was not involved due to the policy of isolation

The animosity or allied-making overtures of both communist and democratic nations towards their neighbors during the Cold War resulted in very strong ties between some, and great divisions between others.

And there was also fear. The threat of nuclear holocaust, was very real around the world, even in no-nuclear nations. Everyone was watching what was about to happen. Would there be war or peace? No one knew.

Allow the U.S. access to trade with China

The US has launched wars against Iraq on two distinct occasions.

The US joined the Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991 on January 17, 1991 with bombing raids on Iraqi positions along the Iraqi-Saudi border.

The US joined the Iraq War of 2003-2011 on March 20, 2003 when US soldiers landed in Iraq and began a northwestward march.