What should US foreign policy be based on?

I’ve arguing that the ‘anti-communist’ US foreign policy that dominated US global thinking since at least the 1920’s was often misguided and ill thought through meaning it often caused problems (that are still around today) which could have been avoided if it had chosen a more reasoned approach.

I’d go on to argue that if this was understood if might bring about a more reasoned US foreign policy in the future.

The question I’m asking is what do people thing that ‘more reasoned’ approach should be based on?

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This is easy.First off,do away with NAFTA,get american jobs back here.Second,bring all overseas troops home.Fuck everybody else,defend OUR country.Third,cut off ALL foreign aid.The rest of the world hates us anyway,why keep sendin em money.Fourth,with all the money we save,pay china back,then tell em to kiss our American asses.simple

 

how about stop telling everyone what to do, just be respectful and help people, don't blow up people just because we don't agree with them, only go to war when we are seriously threatened?

 

peace love happiness respect

 

kind of like the raver's code P.L.U.R.
Peace
Love
Unity
Respect

 

that sounds good too

 

Should also be everyone's personal policy;

Whatever you do, above all try not to interfere with others lives or loves.

Hippie ideal, what can I say...


ZW

 

I think we should call out oppressive governments such as Iran and China more than what we are doing now, although this practice has definitely been stepped up lately. While we have the means and the power to help in third-world countries faced with civil wars, famine, AIDS, illiteracy, we should use our power to help. All-out wars should be a last resort, but realistically, some leaders only respond to force. Case in point: Afghanistan.

I think Obama's foreign policy ideas are amazing, but there are forces in our country that are preventing them from being put completely into action.

 

that's an awesome policy!

 

The thing is that the US is a global power with global interests and has been for some time and many things in the world today are the way they are (for ill or good), as a direct result of it foreign policy.

I don’t think it could and I definitely don’t think it has the right not to be involved with the rest of the world.

My contention is that due to a certain ideological outlook and a too short-sighted vision of its self interest, it’s foreign policy decisions often don’t turn out well for those it effects, and I don’t mean just those in foreign fields but for the US and Americans.

But worse than that, it doesn’t seem to learn from its mistakes again due to a certain ideological outlook and a too short-sighted vision of its self interest.

For example both the Obama Administration and the previous one are/were, in differing ways, pursuing the goal of another American century, in other world the dominance of the US in world politics.

I think Americans long term interests would be better served if US policy was aiming at establishing a democratically elected world government. But to suggest that to many Americans today would I think be a bit like suggesting to Americans of a previous age that their long term interests would be better served if US policy was aimed at helping Ho Chi Minh in establishing a Independent Vietnam (1946) or that they support the elected government of Mohammed Mosaddeq in Iran even when he nationalised Anglo-American oil interests (1951).

 

It is pretty obvious, to me anyway, a form of world government is the direction we should be heading, but I'm afraid any description of which (one world gov, new world order, etc) will greatly upset the religious majority in this country.

Traditional religious belief and participation in organized religion has steadily declined in most advanced industrial nations, especially in Western Europe.
Not in the United States though.

The US remains one of the most religious country's in the world. Also the most ignorant of actual scripture! Here's a great "for instance"....something like 75% of people polled mistakenly believe "The lord helps those who help themselves"...

I am Atheist, but I do remember it being hammered into me at a young age, all kinds of shit about "end times".
One world government was said to be one of the signs ....

ZW

 

fuck the idea of a world govt

 

Why?

 

Why? Why would you trust a world government to satisfy the needs of 6.8 billion people of very different cultures and ideas. Our federal government barely does a decent job at it, thank god most power is left to the states.

 

Perhaps not at this moment in history, but something to work toward.
Anarcho-Syndicalism. Not elite power structures.

 

The European Union seems to be mostly positive. Americans would never agree to joining anything like that, though.

 

We already have that. The EU is constantly moving towards an American system of federalism.

 

Never looked at it that way... haha, take that, Europe. You'll be like we are shortly!