Why do many liberals care more about what other countries think about the US instead of caring about survival?

Question

does china care how others view it, india, japan, iran, france, germany, etc... shouldn't we be caring about our survival rather than our image? image is important, but if we are gone it doesn't matter... to me caring more about what others think of me than survival remind me of highschool, trying to be cool to impress people, but then you fail the test because you didn't study, but at least you were cool...

Answer 1

all I care about is intelligent decision making. As far as how the rest of the world views it, I dont care, just so the decisions make sense and actually help us rather than hurt us.

Answer 2

If they seem to go too far sometimes it is because they are trying to compensate for the stupid bullying naivety of conservatives.

Contrary to uninformed popular belief, terrorism is defeated with police tactics not warfare. For one thing, you cannot fight a war against ‘terror’. That is like fighting a war against ‘flanking maneuvers’. Sure, they are real, but you cannot just focus on that.

When was the last time your heard about the Red Brigade or IRA? You don’t because the were dealt with using police methods. It was police methods that allowed the British to stop the most recent airline bomb plot.

Intelligence is the key to defeating terrorism, and to get intelligence – you need countries that are friendly and willing to cooperate. Right after 9/11 both Iran and Syria provided critical intelligence tracking Bin-Laden to Afghanistan and pinning the bombings on him.

Do you think they will help now?

Without intelligence we are certain to be attacked – and the next one will be so massive that everyone will forget 9/11.

When that happens, no one will care and no one will help because Bush has destroyed America’s honor, dignity, and role as the moral and ethical world leader.

Bush has turned the whole world against us and when the time comes that we really do need help – there will not be any.

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poolgod -

We would be off listening to 'thinkers' rather than the 'non-thinking' conservatives who have managed to invade two of the weakest countries on the face of the earth, ever (Afghanistan and Iraq), with the most powerful military on earth, ever, and LOSE both.

That sure is a ringing endorsement your accomplishments
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Answer 3

Well it's pretty simple. We dpend on our allies both in Europe and the Middle East. We need to follow sane policies that don't necessarily alienate us from those who would otherwise stand beside us.

And you are right, we should never compromise our security to make nice with other nations. But that is really an oversimplification of what we have done to some of our long standing allies.

They warned us that we were going over a cliff and we turned our backs on them.

We live in a world filled with other countries. I agree that it's not a popularity contest, but we can follow policies that bring us a greater measure of respect. We can always make the world fear us, but respect ...that requires a little more effort.

Answer 4

Though the Republicans have attempted to paint dramatic differences, many of the defense and foreign policy positions of both parties are similar. "They have a lot in common. They say similar things on Iraq and rogue states. They're strongly pro-Israel and pro-trade. They both support American leadership and engagement," says Lee H. Hamilton, a former chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee who is now director of the Smithsonian Institution's Woodrow Wilson International Center.
The real debate among Democrats — and indeed within the nation at large — is how to promote freedom, how totalitarian the threat of terrorism really is, and how we best can exert our power together with that of others. Should we promote elections or help build the liberal foundations of a constitutional democracy? Should we invade countries in an effort to liberate the oppressed or should we promote our values and ideas principally by living up to them here at home? Should we spend vast amounts on foreign aid and development assistance or encourage liberalization and development by providing access to our markets? Should we leave nation building to the UN and others or should we revamp our domestic institutions to do so better ourselves? Should the fight against terrorism be the organizing principle of our foreign policy or should we consider it one global menace among many — like infectious diseases, weapons proliferation, global warming — that may affect the lives of perhaps many more Americans? Should we use force only in response to a direct attack on us or our allies or can it be used preemptively or preventively? Should we intervene militarily only with the blessing of the UN Security Council or are there circumstances were we might want to intervene without its blessing? If we must act in concert with others, who are these others — NATO, the big powers, a coalition of the willing, fellow democracies?

These are the questions we have been debating, but Beinart neither really asks nor really answers them. So, frankly, we're left with a book that tells us something about liberalism's past, but very little about how it can shape America's future. Yes, it's important to understand what we believe — to have a "narrative of American greatness," as Beinart puts it. But unless that narrative or worldview can inform policy choices and help us decide the tradeoffs among them, it isn't very helpful. In the end, we need to know not only what we believe, but what we're going to do about it to make it real.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

A good image is part of survival. American is the ultimate democracy experiment and the best way to spread freedom is to be a good example and others will steal our Democratic ideas.

Answer 7

I think liberals are afraid that if they don't impress other countries then we won't get any help from them when we need it. But Maybe if they would get their heads out of their asses and realize that it's really not making any difference what they do, then maybe they would start caring about survival.

Answer 8

Because they would rather be popular than be honorable. Frankly, I'd rather follow my conscience and do the right thing than be popular. I don't care what the world thinks, I know in my heart whats right and no French man, whose country sympathized with the Soviet Union is going to lecture me on morals.

Answer 9

Are you kidding me? Does the US care about what other countries think about our nation? If so, we have f'ed up by the numbers. I am pretty sure the game is survival. Numbers don't lie. More than 100,000 iraqis are dead. They must be thinking more about what other countries think of them, huh?

Answer 10

How many liberals have you actually talked to, know personally of studied the voting records of, to make such a claim?

And with the poor use of grammar you display to express yourself it sounds like you're very much still in high school and not learning much at that!