I feel it is generally impossible to make everyone in the world happy. If we dont try and appeal to as many nations as we can we are reprimanded or other nations dont like us. Our job as the world power is hard, harder than they can imagine. Despite the fact that many people say George Bush is not doing an adequate job and I agree, you also have to think he is trying as hard as he can to please everyone. It is impossible to make everyone happy so he works as a leader to represent the United States of America. He represents us and our decisions and I think, in tact with his own Christian republican values, he tries to represent the nation as a whole. As a respublican president he needs to put some guidelines down in order to stahy faifthful to the republican backgroung. But besides that he tries to appeal to the nation as a whole. Imagine the pressure and task to try and please everyone. Because he seems unsure what he wants to do people constantly criticize him and he has become somwhat impopular (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/03/AR2005110301685.html.)
How do you try and make everyone satisfied about foreign policy? Everyone has differing opinions about the role that they want us to play with the rest of the world. This makes is so hard to please everyone and hear people not complain. Regardless, we need to help others a lot, and citizens have to affect that. Foreign affairs help us become the nation we are today. Without our allies and trading partners we could not be as prosperous as we are because of the importation of resources that we dont have. It is important for citizens to be aware of our foreign policy so they can play an active role (http://www.fpa.org/.) Without the help of other countries giving us fuel we would be lost(http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html.). So we do have to keep ourselves involved with other countries for our own well-being.
With Africa we need to help them not only for resources but just out of respect for mankind. They have imported millions to us over the years that has really benefited our economy. But there is so much argument over whether or not it is our obligation to be involved in African affairs, including Darfur. This issue is never going to be solved, there will always be people who disgaree with our role, it will be impossible to please the whole nation. The best approach we can take to our African intervention policy is to try and stop genocide while keeping the majority of our citizens happy.
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As of right now, I think the pressure on George W Bush could not be any higher. With the Iraq war and so many things going wrong in our own country, he already has all of these things on his plate. I believe that the Darfur issue IS something we should be concerned about and I believe that we should attempt to send some form of aid that doesnt involve US troops. We have already tried things like this such as the excursion in Somalia and I believe that the Iraq war is another reason why we shouldn't send troops in. However, we cannot completely turn our heads to this type of violence.
That is admirable of you to note that. As much as I dont like Bush I believe that he does have a lot of pressure on him and this war has caused his popularity to greatly decrease. Most US citizens dont sympathize with Bush because they believe that all of our issues are his fault but dont recognize all of the issues he is dealing with as our president between the Iraq War, global warming, terrorism, oil issues, foreign affairs and many, many other problems.
You make good points about the difficulty of being the President of the United States. I also think you did a good job of explaining why foreign policy is such a controversial issue; however, I think your argument would be stronger if you backed it up with some support as to why this is so. You make a lot of generalized conjectures that seem to be common knowledge. More research could help your analysis. I also think you many have lost touch with your focus, Darfur. The last paragraph you mention “the best approach is to try and stop genocide while keeping the majority of our citizens happy.” This statement was a good start, but I could have been picked apart more. I feel as though you needed to analyze why Darfur is such a heated issue rather than just foreign policy in general. The beginning of your post was a great introduction, but just take it a step farther.
I realize our president has a lot of pressure on him with the war in Iraq and trying to solve our whole oil crisis, but I do believe it is one of our obligations as a super power to help out other third world countries, especially those who are threatened by mass murder like the genocide happening in Darfur. I find it ironic that we fight wars that are beneficial to us in the end like the Holocaust in WWII. One of our main goals was to prevent communism from spreading through Europe to keep our influences of democracy and a free market economy. Really, our involvement was to protect our own aims in European government in order to benefit the U.S. Why didn't we get involved in other genocides that happened in the past like Rwanda? Well, maybe because the results of this genocide in Africa wouldn't effect American lifestyles back home. Most Americans didn't even have a clue it happening because our government did not want us to know that something this horrible was going on and we chose not to help. I find it very sad and devastating that we could be doing so much more to help the people of Darfur and yet we choose once again not to. But you are right, we need to find a balance so that we can help out these other nations and at the same time still solve our own problems.
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