If you had your wish, what would America's "Foreign Policy" be?

[Philosoraptor]

Right now it seems that our foreign policy is to conquer Earth. I personally would like to see a wee bit more isolationism and neutrality. I'd like to see us promoting peace and prosperity as opposed to conquering Earth.

I'd like to stop sending troops everywhere and keep them here whenever possible, I'd like to see less military presence and less world policing.

I'd like to see logic in our foreign policies instead of pig headedness.

And above all I'd like to have the best possible representatives of America going forward into the world with humble intelligence, to counteract our current swine ape.

[Skidmore]

1. Stay at home and mind our own business for a while.

Understand that we do not have the definitive answer on how other nations should order their societies nor do we have the right to impose our culture on others. Learn to live with less of everything. Learn to be self-sufficient again and to take care of our own problems instead of creating problems elsewhere. Actively work to preserve the earth.

[izzie]

3. I am with you on this.

Plus I think we should back the UN with a strong peace force to enter countries that are killing off its people or staving them to death. Looks to me like some African people need help and No, Korea. I a m not sure how that could be done but I think the UN should deal with the people in trouble and not the gov. in these countries.

[Skidmore]

4. I like Selatius' idea too. I think we are just way to sure that our

way of life is the gold standard by which the rest of the world should measure itself that collectively we cannot recognize the damage done to the globe by exporting our system. We also refuse to acknowledge that we have a host of social and economic problems at home created by the very culture we are trying to foist off on the rest of the world. We need to rein in this free trade crap and get rid of trickle on economics. It doesn't work and contributes immensely to poverty and degradation of workers everywhere. You need to have some controls in place which recognizes the basic needs of humans to survival and dignity.

[izzie]

11. Well I am with you on this.

I am a capitalist to the bone but with over sight by the gov. to be sure all is fare. As it is going now it looks like we will be working for 1.00 an hour. It is sure going to be a race to the bottom and I can not see even how business can keep going if they do not join in at this rate. We are just going to have to go back to fees for goods coming in to the country or go to the lowest wage, I guess. When Clinton ran he said he would look into that trade stuff and I think he sold us out on that. I bet when he went to NYC to get money from the big dealers he made a deal. Course if the middle class in US goes the whole buying group will fail unless they can replace it with the same type of people who have this type of income. Where are they going to find it?

[dipsydoodle]

9. Best possible answer.

You are today's winner of a hypothetical teddy bear.

There's a whole lot to be said for taking care of your own business and keeping your nose out of other people's.

Just imagine the alternative uses of the money which has been blown in Iraq for example.

[Selatius]

2. My foreign policy would rankle Corporatism tremendously

There are hundreds of military bases US forces all across the world that allow the US to project its will onto others. Close them all and bring back the troops. Turn over the facilities to the locals or demolish them.

Cut all funding to military dictatorships and authoritarian governments that are guilty of various atrocities against their own citizens and against the citizens of other countries. The day of tin-pot dictators ruling with US permission are over.

Withdraw from the WTO, cancel NAFTA. Renegotiate trade agreements with all nations that wish to do business with the US. No trade agreement would be passed by me without the input of labor interests both foreign and domestic. No trade agreement would be passed by me without also the input of environmental groups. The corporate robber baron days of "free trade" will be demolished if I had my say. Fair trade, not free trade, will be the order of the day.

I will adopt a foreign policy that encourages nations to invest in their peoples. Good schools, good health care, stable jobs, adequate infrastructure--the whole nine yards. Disease, hunger, homelessness, the scourge of international Corporatism--this will be the "Axis of Evil" in the only war I will willingly fight both here at home and abroad: The War on Poverty.

The only way I would commit troops to war is for two reasons: To protect home and family from immediate danger and to protect the Bill of Rights from enemies both foreign and, most likely, domestic. That is all.

[DianaForRussFeingold]

5. Thank you for posting this! I love all the replies. They warm my heart!

We need a world peace summit! God bless all the innocents who suffer most!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6bIDn0_4B0&search=peace%20train Cat Stevens - Peace Train- No propaganda,just really cool trains and monorails.

[The2ndWheel]

6. There wouldn't be an America or a foreign policy

I'm afraid this was, given the ability to do so, always going to be the road America went down. Every expanding state, which are known as empires, have tried to conquer the world. I know none have succeeded, and we should learn from history, blah, blah, blah. But that's not how power works.

Every rise and fall of empire in the history of civilization has led to this moment in time. Each death of an empire, leads to the growth of another. Every war that has ever been waged, had led to the one in Iraq, and our favorite all time show on the border of Israel and Lebanon. Every war sets up the next war. The consequences of the current war, are the pretext for the future war.

There will always be another war. As long as we have states, or any entity that large, that can mobilize that kind of power, we're going to have war. Standing armies will be used.

[Skidmore]

7. I find it an amazing irony that the emporer this nation put up

is such a bumbling inept caricature of power, and that any expansions gained under his regime will also lead to the speedy downfall of the American Empire. The fall of the American Empire is desirable, in my opinion. I would rather have our republic back.

[bowens43]

8. No military aid for anyone , any where, any time.

But greatly increased social and economic aid.

[Mythsaje]

10. America should strive to be a good example

first of all.

Act out of a sense of dignity and respect.

Resort to violence when all other methods have failed, not for political expedience.