Why would we Americans really care about how the rest of the world thinks of us? Well, because we don't exist in a vacuum. What the US does, especially with foreign, economic, immigration and travel policies matter massively with all the world and specific areas in the world. How we adjust our trade policies effect China, how our energy policy changes effects the Middle East and other oil producing regions. Our behavior as a military superpower is especially significant to the world whether nations are U.S. allies or U.S. enemies. How we engage in diplomacy, patrol the seas and engage in military activities are HUGE in the world. Our invasion into Iraq was the worse international blunder ever in my opinion. History has and will judge us harshly. Along with that is our treatment of "enemy combatants" that are an embarrassing violation of international behavior and a cancer on our own justice system and Constitution. It is a spit in the collective eye of the founding fathers. It will take years to fix that. Day one when the next president takes over, Guantanamo should be emptied, closed, bulldozed to the ground and the land handed back over to Cuba.
We should go back and renegotiate every trade, environment, diplomatic and military treaty that's ever been signed by the United States. We should insure there are clear lines of allegiance, assuring all are in the best interest of all Americans and the well-being of the rest of the world. I think NATO is obsolete and will only serve to cause tension in the future. I think the EU should take over all negotiations in Eastern Europe, in dealing with Russia. I think we DO need to sit down with any nation that wants to talk to us, as long as all nations. However, they need to understand that the American people come first, and we will not tolerate a relationship with Nations that sponsor terror, genocide, environmental rape, and human rights violation where women, children and minorities are treated worse than the general population, including other minorities in religion and sexual identity.
We need to return America to a nation that the world respects, and isn't afraid to sit down with and do business with. We also want to open our doors to legal immigration. I think the more we behave 'nicely' and a little less selfishly in the world the more the world will welcome us into their world openly. The more open the world is the less conflict will be occurring.
I do not believe Sen. McCain understand this AT ALL. I think sees the world through the same set of money tinted glasses the Bush administration see the world, but I think that McCain is even more willing than W. to send a bomber to negotiate before a diplomat. We do NOT want shoot first ask questions later government anymore. That's where we are today. And no one trusts us, or McCain for that matter looking at the Economists World Electoral Map.
Notice that the Blue is Obama
The Red is McCain … where he leads in Cuba, Namibia, Congo, Macedonia, and of course Iraq. Because of the Surge™ no doubt.
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