Foreign Policy And Violece

The United States spends about one billion dollars a day on the military. That adds up to a total of 365 billion dollars a year of tax payers’ money and the U.S has not been involved in a major war since the early nineties. So why is all of this money being spent on the military? It’s because The United States involves itself in the small skirmishes of its allies. For example, large amounts of artillery and thousands of troops each year attempt to keep peace between Iraq and Iran. Even though this is not a massive amount of U.S military force, the money being budgeted to pay the men and women who are there a

The United States, being the global power that it is needs to better decide what matters are most important to involve the military aid of the U.S and the ramifications of its actions. If the United States only involved itself (militarily speaking) in matters that were of utter need the American people would benefit. The people would get their tax money used on more important things than the military, but most importantly peoples’ lives would be at less of a risk because America’s image would change dramatically.

To the Arab nations and many other countries the United States appears to be a giant that abuses its power. The U.S pokes and prods in the business of these nations with military force when it should not go any further than to assist in financial (even thought the funds may go to buying weapons for the aided country) and conversational aid. The United States should only get involved (militarily speaking) in crises where world wide or continental devastation would occur.

nd the money spent on the weapons they use could be used to solve New Hampshire’s crisis of funding education.

Instead of blaming violence on the media, movies or videogames, blame the violent acts seen around the world on the inability and uncomfortable feeling of exposing and telling the youth of world the facts about violence. Instead of locking up the gun of violence and throwing away the key in hope that no one finds it, let’s bring it out into the open, tell our children about it an if by chance they stumble upon one somewhere in their lives they will know how to operate safely around it and how to avoid it.

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