A lot of people have different beliefs when it comes to what role the U.S. should play in the changing world today. Should we protect our homeland, build a more cooperative world, protect U.S. global interests or lead the world to democracy? Personally, I believe that defending U.S. global interests is the most important policy that America should focus on currently. By this, I mean that the U.S. should keep working internationally but shift to a more pragmatic approach. The U.S. should not try and fix other countries’ problems and we should not try and intervene in making other countries “better”. With this belief, I feel that the U.S. needs to “accept the world how it is” and actually be more selfish and less selfless.
Many people in the United States believe that Americans were put on this Earth by God to make this world a better place. It’s our duty to spread democracy and spread our views around the world and try and make every country like us. This is called a messianic impulse. …show more content…
should be careful not to resist them in the effort to stay number one. This, as we can see with the competition between China and the U.S. in Africa, can cause confrontation. In this current situation we should also look up to Great Britain during the rise of America. Instead of resisting us as we grew and grew as a nation, they actually adapted and accommodated (Post American World). Because Britain did not resist us, there weren’t any wars or confrontation between us and both countries kept a lot of power and influence. Britain continued to have something called soft power. This type of power means that Britain was able to make an impact and influence the rest of the world without using military or force. They were able to achieve their objectives was through diplomacy. I think that America should also strive to have this type of power instead of intervening and trying to include ourselves in every other countries
Many people in the United States believe that Americans were put on this Earth by God to make this world a better place. It’s our duty to spread democracy and spread our views around the world and try and make every country like us. This is called a messianic impulse. …show more content…
should be careful not to resist them in the effort to stay number one. This, as we can see with the competition between China and the U.S. in Africa, can cause confrontation. In this current situation we should also look up to Great Britain during the rise of America. Instead of resisting us as we grew and grew as a nation, they actually adapted and accommodated (Post American World). Because Britain did not resist us, there weren’t any wars or confrontation between us and both countries kept a lot of power and influence. Britain continued to have something called soft power. This type of power means that Britain was able to make an impact and influence the rest of the world without using military or force. They were able to achieve their objectives was through diplomacy. I think that America should also strive to have this type of power instead of intervening and trying to include ourselves in every other countries