When one looks at all of the different countries out there in the world, one can see many different forms of government. Some of these forms are more complicated than others but they all have one distinct similarity. The people of the country are free to support or oppose their government. This ability creates a circuit which provides a way for the government to know when they are going down a path the people don’t support. This feedback loop prevents the government from doing something wrong. Without this freedom, the circuit is broken and there is something wrong. This is how it is in dictatorships. The freedom that people have to oppose their government no longer exists because one person has taken complete control of everything. This makes dictatorships a great danger to other countries because that feedback loop no longer exists. Without this feedback loop to provide correction for the government the dictator will be able to lead the country into any direction which he desires. This makes dictators a massive threat to all other countries. The only way to protect other countries from rampaging dictatorships, is to oust them before they fully mature. These future dictators must be removed from a position of power before they are able to become a dictator with unchecked powers. A future dictator like Hamid Karzai must be removed from power before he completely takes control of the government of Afghanistan. To do this the US must step up to the plate and act. They must convince NATO or the UN to send men to remove Karzai from his post. The usual reaction of the US would be to wait and see if the dictatorship of Karzai would openly threaten the US and then only react once it has become too late. At that point, the Karzai dictator...
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Every day in New York City, hundreds of people walk past a huge digital billboard with giant numbers across its face. Each person who walks past this billboard sees a slightly different arrangement of numbers, growing larger every second. This board is the National Debt Clock, representing the over 14 trillion dollars currently owed by the United States. While some people claim that the national debt is caused by the falling economy, most maintain that the debt itself causes the poor economy (Budget Deficits 2007). Rising debt leads to higher interest and investment rates, and cuts into our national savings. Ignoring the national debt leaves the major burden of paying it off to later generations, while meanwhile allowing our country’s economy to further drop and our dependency on other nations to rise.
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The United States Military though has problems in the country and has been having these problems since the invasion. Training Afghan forces and fighting the Taliban has not been working and is not efficient. We are trying to win the hearts and minds of the people but when the Taliban are blowing up schools and hospitals, winning those hearts and minds is a challenge. “Americans are used to be successful and these wars are not” announces Mark Lytle (Hampson). Americans are being worn down and soon will be on the verge of giving up, something Al Qaeda wants, and we are letting our enemy win this war. Afghanistan though also has ethnic problems. There are several divisions in Afghanistan, different tribes different ethnic background. The concept of majority rule has not been sitting well. The Afghan Government is corrupt and is not efficient enough to rule effectively. “The sooner we accept that Afghanistan ...
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On the Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, there is a national debt clock that shows the amount of United States national debt. The clock was first installed in 1989, and can show up to ten trillion dollars. It ran out of digits in October 2008 when the sum of debt exceeded the amount. A new clock with two extra digits is going to be installed (Izzo 2 ).
“Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.” Plato wrote this in 360 B.C.E. in his book titled The Republic, despite it being centuries old, it still speaks the truth. This can be seen in the years before World War 2, when the world saw three major dictators rise to power. Dictators such as Adolf Hitler of Germany, Hideki Tojo of Japan, Benito Mussolini of Italy and Joseph Stalin of Russia were the main dictators who came to power during this time period. The outbreak of these dictators were one of the many direct causes of WWII, and while Stalin was on the side of the Allies, he was still a brutal dictator of his country. But why do these dictators rise to power and what is to say they won’t rise again? An in depth look at the situations that Germany, Italy and Japan were forced to endure along with a look at trends in history can answer these questions.
Canada has played a vital role in international relations for the majority of its 144 year history since the signing of Confederation in 1867. Canada first participated in World War I, then World War II in 1939-1945. Following World War II, Canada was also involved in the Korean War. Canada has been primarily a peacekeeping nation. There are many questions people ask when a high income country goes to help a lower income nation such as Afghanistan. What are Canada’s motives for helping out Afghanistan? Who will benefit from Canada going to war in Afghanistan? These are some of the questions many people have. While Canada has many domestic problems of its own such as homelessness, poverty and increasing national debt, why should Canada get involved with a problem that is across the globe? Are the costs of going to war out weight the political benefits? Modernity, modernization theory and gender stratification are some key concepts that are related to Canada going to war in Afghanistan.
For decades Afghanistan has been a reservoir for war. From the collapse of the communist government, to the implementation of the Taliban’s extremist views, the country has been ridden with civil war resulting in over 26,000 civilians killed at the expense of the interminable violence. The people of Afghanistan see no end to the barbaric measures that have stripped them of their liberty. While corruption ridden the country’s leaders, the Taliban displays the public slaughter of civilians in order to establish obedience.
Although there has been extensive devastation created by some modern dictators of our world, man’s nature is inherently good. According to Mencius, a great Chinese philosopher (circa 371 – circa 289 BCE), man’s nature is good. Mencius’ thought was that man is born good-hearted, but due to any number of external influences, can become evil. This past century has brought us a few dictators that can be described by this ancient idea of human nature.
Afghanistan is like a time capsule. Many people farm for subsistence, and few are able to read or write. Afghans have been compared to Spartans in that they are a martial people who have been at war for thousands of years. The rough terrain in which they live lends itself to long periods of resistance. Time and time again they have been able to push away would be conquerors. The current war in Afghanistan stands in contrast to previous wars because its purpose is not one of conquest for land or for the exploitation of resources. The purpose of the current war in Afghanistan is to win over the Afghan people and to help them grow ideologically to assimilate into an ever more technologically advanced global environment.
In the past ten years the Afghan Government has been dealing with a number of issues that have caused problems for the country, problems such as illegal drug trade, terrorism and violence. But nowadays they are fighting a problem that has long existed between people, and quite recently has taken a whole new aspect to it. Ethnic conflict is the destructive factor that has caused problems between people for generations, often leading to fights, outbreak of violence and grudge between different ethnicities.
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