US Foreign Policy

The Yom Kippur war took place on October 6, 1973. It took place on the holiest of Jewish holidays. The war led to the demise of the Soviet American detente because of the countries involved and the way the cold war played out between the two countries.

The U-2 incident was important for several reasons. U-2 spying planes used by the US were unknown by the general public. Secondly it showed to the US military that the Soviets were aware of the spying and had the ability to shoot the high flying plane down. The downing of the plane and the capture of its pilot became an international incident and an embarrassment to the US. The release of Powers, the pilot displayed good will by the USSR.

North Korea is not going to bomb the United States. North Korean War Ministers and Generals know that any attack on the US will result in North Korea being flattened into a pancake.

The posturing is for a diplomatic response. The North Koreans have always desired bilateral negotiations with the United States because they believe that those negotiations would be more prestigious as well as giving them more benefits. The United States has always demanded that North Korea engage in six-party talks (US, N Korea, S Korea, Japan, China, and Russia) in order for the other countries to limit North Korean demands and come to a regional consensus. The North Koreans think that if they are crazy enough, the USA will give into their demands.

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In the four score and seven years between the Declaration of Independence and the Emancipation Proclamation, the United States frequently stood out as an exception in world affairs. As a sovereign government on a continent of colonial possessions, and a democratic republic in a world of monarchies, the young American state was a singular phenomenon in global politics. But the United States, of course, was also a slaveholding nation in an era when slavery first came under international attack. This course examines how several generations of American leaders, from Thomas Jefferson to Abraham Lincoln, participated in the overseas politics of slavery, which ranged all the way from London to Havana to Rio de Janeiro. As we consider international slave emancipations, U.S. territorial expansion, and the role of bound labor in the world economy, we will concentrate especially on the ways in which slavery shaped American foreign policy between the Revolution and Civil War.

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Henry Kissinger served as the U.S. secretary of state from 1973-1977. He also served as the U.S. National Advisor from 1969-1975. Kissinger has not held a position. Kissinger is currently the chairman of Kissinger Associates, an international consulting firm.

President Truman believed the US needed more than a "get tough on the Russians" policy following the war. Russia's history was one of expansion as much as possible and the Soviet Union was following that same idea. Because of the desire of the Soviets to expand westward, and the fact that Stalin had a pathological mistrust of the US, it would be impossible to come to a peaceful settlement with the Soviets. Thus, the policy of containment, developed by George F. Kennan of the State Department, was adopted by the Truman administration. The policy would allow communism where it already existed, but would use all force necessary to prevent any further expansion. In other words, communism would be "contained" where it presently existed.

The United States Increased aid to the French in Vietnam. (NN) because the US was against Communism.

why you think? sure for the oil under the Iraq soil. everybody knows that the sources for energy is shrinking day by day and the search for new sources has already been set off. but for now, every country is in a dire need of oil. so what a contry can do_? if it has enough power, "get it". existence of WMD, bringing democracy & freedom, or peace-keeping or other nonsense excuses are just to cover the main aim up.

The Monroe Doctrine was a policy of the United States. It was introduced on December 2, 1823. The declaration stated that any efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be considered acts of aggression, requiring the United States to intervene. It also stated that the United States may not interfere with existing European colonies nor is the United States allowed to get involved with the concerns of European countries.

The Monroe Doctrine was issued at a time where all Latin American colonies of Spain and Portugal had achieved or were at the point or achieving independence from the Portuguese Empire and Spanish Empire. The president, James Monroe, first stated the Monroe Doctrine during his seventh annual State of the Union Address to Congress. The declaration gained its name in the year 1850. By the end of the nineteenth century, Monroe's declaration was seen as a defining moment in the foreign policy of the United States.

Historians cite the 1817 executive agreement made by US President James Monroe as the first time that foreign policy that could have been considered a " treaty" however, there weer no congressional complaints about it. The agreement was made by Monroe with Great Britain to limit the amount of naval forces on the Great Lakes.

President Hoover went with the flow of the American people. After the first world war, the American people were hesitant when dealing with European affairs; thus America entered an "isolationist" period. Hoover did very little with foreign relations until the very end of his term. He realized that being on good terms with Latin America was important to help with guarding the wester hemisphere. FDR would then take this idea to the next level with his "good neighbor policy".

The Soviet Union was strong enough to end any wars in Europe. Roosevelt would eventually use a military buildup to increase the power of the presidency. U.S. military force would never be strong enough to fight war in Europe.

The United States and Iran had a very antagonistic relationship in 1980, and therefore the United States want to inflict a serious blow to Iran. Therefore the American leadership helped Saddam Hussein have access to weapons in order to attack Iran.

The United States did not support Shah Reza Pahlavi nor did they oppose him. The United States foreign policy prior to World War II (when Reza Pahlavi ruled) was minimal and therefore most American administrations did not have an issue or position with his leadership. The United States was not involved in the British-Soviet operation to force the resignation of Reza Pahlavi for his son in 1941.

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It is quite complex however I'll attempt to elucidate the key points simply.

Israel receive on average around $3 billion in US foreign aid annually, a figure which is gradually increasing over time. This is both an official figure and quite a conservative one, considering the CIA's budget is secret and there is no telling how much additional money Israel receives through such black op channels.

Other on-the-record handouts are the little-known military "loans" that go to Israel each year which are never repaid, plus 6 million gallons of unleaded gas annually.

So, why so much foreign aid? Well, there are number of reasons; one being that Israel has declared itself a "Democracy" in the Middle East, being haplessly thrust amidst other "terrorist" nations which refuse to kowtow to our hawkish Western influence. What this basically means is that, as long as Israel maintains their veneer of "Democracy", they will always have an advantageous influence on Western politics, particularly via the UN which was responsible for overseeing the founding of Israel in 1948. The truth is of course that Israel is the result of annexed Palestinian land. The founding of a Jewish state in the ME meant that hundreds of thousands of Arab Palestinians were forced from their own lands so that "Israel" could be claimed by European migrants of Jewish faith. This exile of Arabs is historically known as the Palestinian Diaspora. These Palestinians are today mostly labelled Terrorists, when indeed they are simply those who wish to reclaim their home. The political language used as a result of Israeli influence on the West is such that the Jews are popularly perceived as the rightful owners of the land, and the Arabs are simply psychopathic warlords who wish them damned on some religiously-inspired whim. This illusory simulacra incentivises many nations to financially support Israel, whilst also serving to justify shoring up the popularity of an ongoing Western military presence in face of all the perceived threats in the ME.

In a psychological sense, after World War II the Western world has become almost universally sympathetic to the idea of Jewish statehood, making it a cakewalk for the Israeli's to not only insinuate themselves into favourable positions with Western allies but to also maintain a positive or passive image to the public at large (regardless of the atrocities they might carry out against their neighbours).

Another key reason for so much aid is that Israel has probably the strongest lobby in US politics, and this influence alone has the power to help or hinder processes and decision making in terms of US foreign policy and military spending. Africa has no such influence on US foreign policy and are thus, unfortunately, much less of a priority. Furthermore, there is a religious undertow to Israel's relationship to the West, and the US especially. At the heart of this relationship we have the Israeli Middle East agenda sharing a common objective with that of fundamentalist Christian politicians in the West, primarily with aims of Nation building by virtue of "democratising" Arabic lands so that Israel defences can be secured, and with it, the surrounding oil fields and other natural resources, like minerals. The propaganda machine has therefore in the past two decades become wont to skewering Arabs as "Terrorists" or Israel as falling prey to "Terrorism" (except for when the Arabs are being used to fight FOR the ME agenda, then they are simply labelled "Freedom Fighters" or "Rebels") Many US politicians have dual Israeli-US citizenships and the common presence of such individuals is testament to the powerful Zionist influence in our Government today. Because the US is considered at its most foundational core of identities, a Christian nation, of course their politicians and thus the public are apologetic to the whims of Israel and its various lobbyists, who together represent a Jewish majority in the Middle East. This is particularly true when many US politicians, including members of Congress, are financed by pro-Israeli and Zionist lobby groups such as AIPAC.

The MO of AIPAC and pressure groups like them, is to finance politicians in this way so as they are able to influence foreign policy, shore up interest in Congress, exercise thinktanks such as Project For A New American Century, and effectively alter public perception in such a way as to render Israel not only apparent "victims" of "Terrorism", but also strong commercial and political allies of all Western Nations (via propaganda).

Many a political campaign for presidential candidates have been backed and funded by Zionist interests, African interests by comparison are so far out in the periphery as to be virtually voiceless. Additionally, many Zionist Jews own corporate media outfits such as ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, UPN, The Washington Post, NY Times, Wall St Journal, Time Mag, People Mag, etc. Not to mention their influence is also prevalent in Hollywood. These are their primary means of manipulating public opinion and garnering support for their Middle East agendas.

One such agenda actually did span into Libya, Africa, where the successful ousting of Gaddafi took place in 2011. Gaddafi may have been a dictator but he was a dictator far different from others, having brought Libya to a status where it functioned without a single loan from the Zionist owned IMF or World Bank. Libya's central bank was 100% owned by the Libyan Government. In short Libya was a debt free nation under Gaddafi. In 1951 Libya was the poorest country in the world. Before US and NATO troops invaded Libya, it had the highest standard of living in Africa and a literacy rate of 83%. It was also called the Switzerland of the African continent. One of the first things the (CIA-Mossad backed) "rebels" did was to change the Libyan central bank to a western type system. I'll leave it for the reader to assume who the real instigators of these military coups are. So perhaps Africa is a priority after all, albeit for all the wrong reasons.

To summarise, Public Relations and Lobbying have a lot to do with Israel's command of US policies and foreign aid, as does controlling the general flow of information. A simple reiteration would be: the more sabre-rattling from militant Israel via their pressure groups in the US, the more impetus to lobby in Congress, the easier American politicians (bought off by AIPAC) acquiesce to furnishing more foreign aid and weapons. Israeli Zionists pull at the purse-strings by insinuating themselves into financially auspicious positions within banking and big business, their lobby groups meanwhile practically buy off politicians and influence media, via the Western propaganda machine, albeit just enough to effect both how much money their homeland in the ME receives in kind, and how much favour is curried by the Western majority; both in the political theatre and to the voting citizenry. This is all notwithstanding the Zionists on Wall Street who are responsible for the GFC and creating speculative bubbles.

The underlying flaw in US-Israel foreign policy is in the fact that everything sent to Israel in the form of financial aid is ultimately a violation of the Symington Amendment to the Foreign Appropriations Act and the Glenn Act., both of which forbid such aid to any nation in possession of nuclear weapons technology that has not signed the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty and does not allow IAEA inspections. Despite this, Zionist lobbies see that annual foreign aid keeps flooding into Israel with impunity. According to Lieutenant-General Gabi Ashkenazi, Israel's Army Chief of Staff, in the past few years US taxpayers have contributed more to the Israeli defense budget than Israeli taxpayers themselves. In turn, Israel continues to bomb civilians in Palestine with the resources and weaponry paid for by the Western Joe Average. In a sense, Western taxpayers are financing Israeli terrorism.

A quote apropos of Zionist influence:

"Israel controls the U.S. Senate. The Senate is subservient, much too much; we should be more concerned about U.S. interests rather than doing the bidding of Israel. The great majority of the Senate of the U.S. - somewhere around 80% - is completely in support of Israel; anything Israel wants; Israel gets. This has been demonstrated time and again, and this has made [foreign policy] difficult for our government." - Senator J. William Fulbright on CBS Face the Nation, April 15, 1973.

Note: Whether or not all this foreign aid actually contributes to the growth of Israel's economy is a topic of contentious debate, although in light of the statistics, it would seem fool to argue that the Israeli citizenry benefit that much from it. Considering all of Israeli taxpayer's money goes towards the nation's Military, we can then guess who benefits the most from US foreign aid. In the 1950's-60's Israel was growing at the average rate of 5.6%, more or less the same as Hong Kong and similar sized economies which continued to grow afterwards. In 1973 Israel began receiving US foreign aid and after that, Israel's average annual growth rate plummeted to around 1.5% over the next 25 years. Also, the cultural ramifications of such aid sees in Israel a stumped rate of diversification, the reliance upon foreign aid essentially means that there is no real incentive for Israel to have to seek cooperation with many other countries in trade and commerce. This is another contributing factor to their stunted economic growth.

Over all, foreign aid to Israel is illegal, amoral, and economically deleterious to both Israeli and US taxpaying citizens...

Zionist Political Pressure/Lobby groups of note are: AIPAC, AEI, ADL, JINSA, SA, NIPP, ZOA and AJC.

The United States had a pattern of imperialism from 1877 to 1914. They purchases Alaska from Russia, paid $20 million for the Philippines, helped Panama break from Columbia, etc.

Every so often students of the US Civil War will come upon a historian's statement that President Lincoln's Secretary of State William Seward proposed in early April of 1961 that a foreign war be created and this would convince the Southern extremists to rejoin the Union and fight off the "enemy". There is little concrete evidence of this. There is more credence to the story that Seward urged Lincoln to evacuate Fort Sumter in order to avoid an armed conflict there. This Lincoln rejected.

The fact that Vietnam was being taken over by a dictator was one of the foreign policy issues that motivated American intervention in Vietnam. At first, the Americans were just there to teach the people of South Vietnam to defend themselves through the establishment of an army.

There was also the Containment Policy, which was the United States' foreign policy to prevent more countries from "acquiring the disease of Communism".

It is the Branch of the US Government that most directly represents the will of the goverened.

The Truman Doctrine--a policy of supporting anti-communist regimes with military and economic aid. The Doctrine was first used in support of democratic governments in Greece and Turkey. The purpose was to provide aid before a communist regime could take over so the people would continue to support the "democratic" or pro-western government already in place. If necessary, the Doctrine promised military aid if the communist segment in that nation began to use force. By stopping the spread of communism, the US would be able to peacefully enjoy relations with other nations, especially in the world economic sector.

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