Do you think most Americans want an aggressive, or a defensive, foreign policy?

Answer 1

A balanced policy is the one that works best. Calling in the B-2 bombers for every alarm that sounds causes more damage than good. Feeling a need to continually prove to the world how tough you are can be and often will be counter productive in the long run.

Answer 2

While talking of Americans so being a non-american i have observed that it is almost 50-50, Aggressive plus defensive.....Bush supporter want an agressive policies mostly just like their president !and If talking of the reality so US foreign policy is totally Agressive !

Answer 3

We already have both an aggressive and defensive policy but we need a stable policy of peace creating alliances that endure, http://www.voteprimous.com

Answer 4

Most Americans live in peace loving nations, over 70% of Americans have not been involved in a war during the last century.

It is likely that you mean United Statesians, as the United States is the only American nation that routinely gets involved in wars all over the world.


You see, there is no such a thing as ‘American’ nationality, America is not a nation America is a continent with many nations in it. The US never named itself the name of the United States is a designation it comes from the end of the Declaration of Independence, "WE, therefore, the Representatives of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in GENERAL CONGRESS, Assembled...". The preamble to the U.S. Constitution reiterated the phrase: "We the People of the United States..." (The authors of these two documents probably used the phrase "united states" in place of a list of colonies/states because they remained uncertain at the time of drafting which colonies/states would sign off on the sentiments therein.) The geographic term "America" specifies the states' home on the American continent.

It is therefor incorrect to refer to US citizens as Americans with the intent of denoting citizenship, or the United States as America with the intent of denoting a nation. Americans have a term for US citizens, we are called United Statesians by the rest of Americans, to say American with the intent of denoting citizenship or America when we mean the United States reflects poorly on our attitude towards the 70% of Americans that are not United Statesians.

Also, although some people would like to believe that America is not one but two continents, North America and South America. If you think about it though, the term U.S. of A. is a glaring example that this line of thought is incorrect, if America was two continents instead of one, shouldn’t it be U.S. of N.A. (North America)? We say Columbus discovered..... ? AMERICA, not South America or North America.

Lastly, while everybody in America from Nome to Patagonia, from Easter Island to Greenland is an American, not every United Statesian is an American. For instance, Hawaiians are as United Statesians as they come, but they ARE NOT Americans, they are Pacific Islanders.

Hope that helps.

Answer 5

Defensive. The US has always only used military intervention as a last resort. That is until we invaded Iraq with no provication. I think we need to defend ourselves, but one of the things that separates us from terrorists is that we don't attack other countries without reason.

Answer 6

Most curry favor with having a strong foriegn policy and backing it up with force.

Polls show that America wants to win the war in IRaq and they think we should do whatever it takes. On the other hand you have a segment of the population in liberals that actively seek our defeat and humiliation with a large liberal media that has the power to shape opinion as willing accomplices.

Mostly people I talk to are more conservative but we only want war in order to fight tyranny and not for the stupid reasons the left thinks America goes to war for.

Answer 7

Aggressive.

Answer 8

both,, but smart,,, the thugs in the Bush administration have derailed our foreign policy efforts to world peace,, but,, intelligent minds will prevail,, the American public will demand it.

Answer 9

Liberals= Defensive. You decide from there.

Answer 10

How about an intelligent one? Too complicated to get into now. Too many important people to take care of and give favors too. Too much money. Too many interests.