...Gretka Mr. Ferguson Government 5-24-13 People are becoming concerned that the United States is becoming a police state. The true test of whether America will respect and protect the freedom of secured liberties is not to be found during times of peace and tranquility, but rather during times of war and uncertainty. In a post-September-11th-world, America is taking such a test. Since the inception of this country, the United States of America has had threats against its security and independence. During such times, those in control of enacted policies have had the duty to protect the liberties guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, while balancing those liberties with national security and defense. For both the citizens and the government, security is always on the mind of every person in every country, and has always been. This country has seen the government attempts to secure itself against supposed threats, specifically during times of war, because that is when people feel the most vulnerable and exposed to those who would want to attack the United States. History has shown us that the natural reaction to threatening situations is for the government to take more power to protect against "would-be" threats, this is the dangerous inclination of human nature in attempts to feel secure, whether or not there is an actual threat. However, the United States Constitution sets forth principles underlying the basic structure of a free country during times of peace and war, whereby...
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...invasion on South Korea was not a Civil War due to the events in Korea, and the permanent divide in 1948. However, there was also US domestic policies, and Truman’s fear of being accused of being ‘soft on communism,’ as well as the US based organisation, the UN, which was a new institution, which Truman had to support. Furthermore, containment in Europe and Asia and the threat to the balance of power in these continents prompted US retaliation, as did the threat to Japan and the US defence perimeter. NSC 68 highlights the importance of the defeat of Communism due to the threat of the ‘destruction of civilisation itself,’ and that the ‘peace of the free world’ is in peril. Due to the US assumptions that communism is evil, which is demonstrated in countries such as Czechoslovakia, where political parties and freedom of speech were banned, Hungary, where political opposition meant imprisonment, and Bulgaria, when any opposition was executed, Truman understood the importance of this document. It recommended rearmament and increase of defence, as well as ‘keeping the US public fully informed and cognizant of the threats to our national security so that they will be prepared to support the measures which we must accordingly adopt.’ However, due to the up-coming mid-term elections, Truman didn’t sign off NSC 68. Truman feared a republican congress, and was worried that NCS 68 would cause the public to vote for this if NCS 68 was signed off, as it would mean a large rise in taxes and...
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...was the stage for the West's struggle against communist ideas and changes. This long wearing conflict brought to pass an increase in production and trade of arms and an appearance of a new world order formed by America. The main principle of the cold war can be seen as the East-West competition in ideas, arms and spheres of influence. (REF) After Afghan terrorists dramatically attacked the United States on September 11, 2001; America declared a war on terror and flew its troops into Afghanistan in pursuit of avenging their nation and capturing al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Again America found itself in opposition to the East, nevertheless this time a different region. And Again the East was fighting against this new world order and America's quest for world domination in a globalising world. The aim of the essay is to explore the relationship between the cold war and the ‘war on terror' in Afghanistan and to find similarities in political patterns and warfare, in order to answer the question Main Body - History Main question - Relationship The cold war marked the struggle between America and the USSR after the Second World War. The war influenced international affairs majorly. It influenced the way conflicts were handled, the way countries were divided up and the increasing growth in weaponry production. The United States of America as well as the USSR had weapons of mass destructions in nuclear form, which formed a global threat for all humanity. However, both superpowers...
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...article “Power and Weakness”, raises interesting discussion about the difference in the way the United States and Europe conduct foreign policy, and why such a difference exists. Being neither European nor American, I this view original, but at the same time controversial on several points. The author starts his analysis by comparing how the United States and Europe handle international politics, and in particular the way they handle outside threats. The view of Robert Kagan about “Why on major strategic and international questions today, Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus”, is well justified in the first part of an article and I found it difficult to disagree with authors opinion. Modern Europe heavily relies on international law, international conventions, and international opinions, when it deals with internal or external problems. It also prefers to use commercial and economic powers over military one. These methods proved to be effective, but at the same time very time-consuming. In contrast to Europe, America prefers to solve disputes in quick and old fashion manner, heavily relying on military power, which usually meets a lot of resistance from European side, and widens a gap in transatlantic relations. However, the author argues that looking back to the history of the United States; this was not always the case. “America’s eighteenth- and early nineteenth- century statesmen sounded much like the European statesmen of today…”, Robert Kagan states....
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...The United States made the right decision in intervening during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Missiles brought to Cuba were against the Monroe Doctrine, and the USA had to act on it. The Monroe Doctrine warns all nations to not interfere in American affairs. The Nuclear Missiles that were brought to Cuba were an extreme threat to the United States, therefore, establishing a naval quarantine around Cuba and intervening had to be done for the welfare of the United States. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a conflict between the United States and Soviet Union over Soviet nuclear missile bases that were found and being built in Cuba. The conflict only lasted 13 days in the October of 1962. In the short amount of time that the Cuban Missile Crisis transpired,...
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...Latin American Politics and DevelopmentThe Cold War, the Cuban Revolution, the spread of guerilla warfare and the doctrine of National Security in Latin America | During World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union fought together as allies against the Axis powers. However, the relationship between the two nations was a tense one. Americans had long been wary of Soviet communism and concerned about Russian leader Joseph Stalin’s tyrannical rule of his own country. For their part, the Soviets resented the Americans’ decades-long refusal to treat the USSR as a legitimate part of the international community as well as their delayed entry into World War II, which resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of Russians. After the war ended, these grievances ripened into an overwhelming sense of mutual distrust and enmity. Post-war Soviet expansionism in Eastern Europe fuelled many Americans’ fears of a Russian plan to control the world. Meanwhile, the USSR came to resent what they perceived as American officials’ rhetoric, arms build-up and interventionist approach to international relations. By the time World War II ended, most American officials agreed that the best defence against the Soviet threat was a strategy called “containment.” In 1946, in his famous “Long Telegram,” the diplomat George Kennan explained this policy, The Soviet Union, he wrote, was “a political force committed fanatically to the belief that with the U.S. there can be no permanent modus vivendi...
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...not be infringed.” This amendment has become a controversial topic in the U.S. Many people support this amendment, arguing that it allows people to protect themselves. However, others disagree with this claim because guns are a safety issue themselves. I challenge the second amendment because presented by allowing guns outweigh the potential safety they provide. The founders of America created the second amendment to protect colonists in a time of war. These people had no other choices than to fight or be enslaved under the monarchy of Britain. Their situation encouraged the creation of the right to bear...
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...shipping lanes has grown by 48.9% between 2002 and 2007, and projected to grow by 42.9% from 2007 to 2012. Loyal customers have also approached David expressing interest in staying with Meli should they provide trans-Pacific operations. Therefore, this market can potentially be a big revenue driver if Meli’s assets are properly aligned to capitalize it. 2.2 Benefits of Diversification: Trans Pacific route, particularly outgoing flows to North America, could offer diversification of income source to Meli Marine in periods when Intra-Asia’s demand is weak. Moreover, in most cases of macroeconomic downturns, countries such as Asia in 1990s will resort to export-push policies to stimulate the economy and a race to affordable transport options; these could enlarge the volume of outgoing freight flows. 2.3 Tit-for-Tat Strategy against Competitors’ Cascading: On a macro level, an expansion move to Asia-NA route will be a strong hit on their competitors “on their profit pool”, and also serve as a possible strategic tool to thwart competitors’ threat of cascading. 2.4 Improve Churn Rate of “Feeder Only” and “Both Services” Customers:...
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...Chinese Immigrants in America Starting in the mid 1800s, there were waves of Chinese immigrants flooding into America looking for a new life in a new country. They were pushed into manual labor jobs such as working on farms or owning restaurants because they would not be allowed to work anywhere else. They were discriminated against and were not welcomed because of their different skin color. There were also many restrictions regarding citizenship and how it affected both their families and the land that they own. My essay contains three main points about the Chinese immigrants in America are their difficulties in obtaining jobs in America, the discrimination that they endured, and the hardships of trying to obtain citizenship. The first...
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...long-term military commitment will finally force America to deal with the entire Gap as a strategic environment. The primary division in the world today, he says, is between two sets countries that he calls the Core and the Gap. The Core consists of advanced countries that play by the rules and are committed to globalization (primarily Europe, North America, and Japan) plus countries that are committed to getting there (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and some others). This is a form of shrinking the gap aka promote globalization. The less connected to globalization, the greater the chance is for U.S. military response. However, the Middle East is ripe for change, a stronger “bully” could push it forward. Focusing America’s military might in the Gap will set the conditions for globalization of nations in the region. Our presence in Japan and Western Europe generated extremely successful Core states. The Gap is everyone else: a collection of disconnected, lawless, and dangerous countries such as Colombia, Pakistan, and North Korea, plus most of the Middle East and Africa. American military action since World War II has been confined almost exclusively to the Gap, which means the task of the United States over the next several decades — and in particular the task of the United States military — is to shrink the Gap and eventually convert the entire world to the values of the Core. Only then will America and the rest of the current Core be safe. Regions...
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...Introduction As the strongest country in the world, America can done all kinds of oppressions onto any country that US like either through strong military force, from economic way and also social of that country. American corporations and popular culture has actually affects the lives and infect the indigenous cultures of millions around the world. Due to the foreign policy of the US government, backed by its military strength, has unprecedented global influence now that the America is the world’s only superpower-its first ‘hyperpower’. America lead all the ways whereby it exports its value systems, defining what it means to be civilized, rational-indeed, what actually it is to be human. Apart from that, America itself is impervious to outside influence, and if most Americans think of the rest of the world at all, it is in terms of deeply ingrained cultural stereotypes. Many people do hate America from Middle East to the developing countries as well as in Europe. Along with the happening of tragedy 9-11, public has focused on the question-‘Why do people hate America?’ This is a loaded question and not simply a statement. However, it would not be weird if people hate America as they often oppressed many other weaker countries especially countries from the Third World. The oppressions done by America can be grouped into three major ways that are politically, economically, and from the social aspect too. Politics The brand of external interventionism adopted by...
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...shipping lanes has grown by 48.9% between 2002 and 2007, and projected to grow by 42.9% from 2007 to 2012. Loyal customers have also approached David expressing interest in staying with Meli should they provide trans-Pacific operations. Therefore, this market can potentially be a big revenue driver if Meli’s assets are properly aligned to capitalize it. 2.2 Benefits of Diversification: Trans Pacific route, particularly outgoing flows to North America, could offer diversification of income source to Meli Marine in periods when Intra-Asia’s demand is weak. Moreover, in most cases of macroeconomic downturns, countries such as Asia in 1990s will resort to export-push policies to stimulate the economy and a race to affordable transport options; these could enlarge the volume of outgoing freight flows. 2.3 Tit-for-Tat Strategy against Competitors’ Cascading: On a macro level, an expansion move to Asia-NA route will be a strong hit on their competitors “on their profit pool”, and also serve as a possible strategic tool to thwart competitors’ threat of cascading. 2.4 Improve Churn Rate of “Feeder Only” and “Both Services” Customers: Offering...
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...hinders the survival of Mussolini’s Empire. However, The United States has 80% of the world’s oil, and is also experiencing a nationwide depression. On this day January, 1st 1935, the United States of America is establishing an oil embargo on the Kingdom of Italy, to halt the progression of Mussolini’s potential worldwide empire, to preserve America’s national economy, and to immobilize Italy’s armed forces. Section 1 The embargo placed on the Kingdom of Italy is a start to diminishing the emerging empire. Without oil, Italy will find itself in a gridlock. Not only will the embargo defeat the conquest, it will also greatly affect the Kingdom of Italy’s homeland. The United States produces more than three-fourths of the world’s oil, and ultimately runs the inter-national oil trade. The United States of America will see to it that the oil embargo not only be enforced by the United States, but also our allying and neutral countries. The United States’ oil embargo hopes to stop Italy’s tyranny. Without the oil, Italy will have no way to fuel the equipment that is needed to sweep the world. The United States will also see that the Italian people experience the oil embargo first hand in their everyday lives Section 2 Although the entire world is affected by this Great Depression, America was hit the hardest by the national deficit. So we will...
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...owns words and deeds (lessons to be followed) * Islam and Politics * The spread of Islam * The five pillars of Islam * Profession of the faith (Allah is true God, Mohammed is a profit) * Ritual prayer (x5 a day) * Charitable donations to the poor * Annual fasting during the month of Ramadan * Pilgrimage (Go to Makah) * Jihad * Inner struggle against evil and selfishness * Vs. Radical Islam (outer struggle against “evil”) * Shar’ia * The law of the land * Radical Islam – rule by the elite Muslims * Very secular government in countries like Egypt try to eliminate radical Islam * Four External Threats to Islam * Crusades (1095-1300) – try to eliminate Muslim using large scale attacks * European Imperialism * The State of Israel * Western ideas of “modernity” (socialism, liberalism, capitalism, sexual equality) * Radical Muslims see those as a threat to Islam * A Fifth threat to Islam * United States cover intervention * United States military attack * U.S. support for corrupt regimes...
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...justified. I believe it was necessary to maintain Democracy and freedom throughout the world, as well as protect the American people. As we all know, during this time period, there were two major wars, both were a serious threat to the United States and its people. The Spanish-American War began with the Spanish mercilessly crushing the Cuban people who were trying to start a revolution in 1895. Many U.S. newspapers graphically portrayed how the Spanish ruthlessly halted the Cuban revolution. This caused many citizens of the U.S. to sympathize with the Cubans and the demand for intervention rose. The demand for intervention would continue until the USS Maine exploded...
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