How can the US play a more successful role in the world?

Question

The United States is usually a polarizing place - people love it or hate it. Some say the US is a bully, others see it as the police force in the world.

What role should the US play in the international arena? How can the US improve how it interacts with other countries? What rights does the US have regarding what goes on in other areas of the world (i.e. Israel and Lebanon, Darfur, North Korea)? What can the United States do to make the world a better place without stepping over the sovereignty of other nations?

Answer 1

By being a leader, and leading through example, and by not being arrogant and belligerant.

By getting an intelligent leader.

Answer 2

The U.S.A. needs to return to its role as a world leader and global peacekeeper. George Bush illegally, unconstitutionally invaded another sovereign nation for two really lame reasons:
1) He wanted to 'finish' what his daddy started during Desert Storm, and 2) Dick Cheney wants all that OIL swimming under Iraq's sands so he and his friends at Exxon-Mobil can get richer and richer and richer.

Prediction: We will NOT use any military might against North Korea, instead choosing to pursue diplomatic resolutions to our differences there. Why? Because North Korea has no OIL.

Prediction: We WILL illegally invade Iran as soon as Bush can figure out a plausible reason that he can 'sell' to his gullible conservative constituency (weapons of mass destruction will not work a second time). Why? Because Iran has lots of OIL and we want it!

The U.S. needs to stop being so hypocritically selective. If we, indeed, want to spread 'democracy' throughout the world, why aren't we invading all those other tiny dictatorships ruled by evil despots? Because they have no OIL - and if they have nothing Bush and Cheney want, the genocide, raping, and torturing can continue unabated. Bush doesn't give a damn about spreading 'democracy' - it's a ploy he can use to exploit and con most of the American people into following, like sheep being led to slaughter.

America must regain its role as a compassionate, civil, reliable, responsible, and trustworthy member of the global community. If the Bush "cowboy and Indian" strategy continues much longer, every smaller nation on Earth will consider developing nuclear weapons of mass destruction as a defense against the world's newest 'evil empire' - the bully Bush, and the United States of America.

The U.S. could - and should - play a leadership role in bringing feuding countries to productive peace talks. Eisenhower, Nixon, Carter and Clinton all made commendable strides toward such peaceful negotiations. Reagan, Bush I and Bush II, on the other hand, believed that any conflict could be resolved with enough guns and ammo.

War begets war. Bullying forces people to take defensive actions against the bully.

You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. And for the U.S. to simply flex its muscles and try to solve the world's conflicts with more conflict is obtuse, irresponsible, immoral, reprehensible and a gross error in judgment.
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The United States should be the world's "big brother" trying to establish peace and tranquility. Instead, we're now viewed as the world's 'big bully" that will swagger its way into any other nation's business and take what we want, kill as many as we must, and destroy cultures and societies just because they don't agree with our idealism.

The Bush administration truly is the most evil, incompetent, corrupt ever to occupy the White House, in collusion with the most corrupt, cowardly, incompetent, greedy U.S. Congress ever to occupy the Capital Building. -RKO-

Answer 3

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)

Answer 4

We should stay out of everybody else's business. We shouldn't be a police of the world, and we certainly shouldn't push our beliefs in government on every other country. We should mind ourselves, and stop battling every country in the Middle East... all it does is make every other country hate us. If we want to trade with them, fine... but leave it at that. We have more than enough internal issues that we need to deal with rather than going to war for someone else's agenda and solving nothing.

Answer 5

well to begin with,We as a nation could mind our own business.We always try to be the world's police force,All the while other nations sit back and save their money while we pour it into a war machine.Let other nations fight their own battles and we could stick to our own business.This is just my opinion.

Answer 6

HAVING ANOTHER SUPERPOWER LIKE UNITED STATES!!!!!

Answer 7

It should do what it did pre-Bush!

Answer 8

they should mind their own business....