Should The United States Help other Countries?

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Is America the world's policeman? Currently it would seem so, with the United States sending unheard of support to countless countries. America has been doing this task for about 60 years, more or less. America spends millions of dollars for the safety of countries that can't help themselves. Obviously America cannot afford to support so many countries and itself. Either it will run out of money or it will run out of men. Policing the world takes a lot of manpower. America is dragging down its own future. If America supports everyone else when they are down, will they do the same for America in the future? America, if it keeps wasting its resources to protect everyone else, will eventually fail (Snyder). America is known as the police force of the world. Mostly, the world views this as good. However, America also lives in infamy for sticking its nose where it doesn't belong. For example, there isn't one continent where America has no influence. This is probably a major inconvenience for the bad guys. The United States works to make itself infamous. The United States deals with a lot of world terrorism and has put an end to most of it. Without a doubt, the United States is the most powerful military force the planet has ever seen, even the citizens have guns. (Dettmer) The United States could teach other countries to be more independent and stop relying on the U.S. or other major countries to support them. America has its own problems, such as immigration, violence, and drugs. What would the U.S. crime rate be if it had more money to spend for its own police departments instead of buying military for some foreign country? Do foreign countries even deserve the back-up? Most of them are third world democracie... ... middle of paper ... .... Works Cited Dettmer, Jamie. The US Military. Foxnews.com. 4 March 2014. Web. 5 March 2014. Fromkin, David. Entangling Alliances. Foreign Affairs. July 1970. Web. 5 March 2014. Oken, Alicia. The White House blog. Whitehouse.gov. 13 September 2013. Web. 5 March 2014. Prager, Dennis. “Yes we are the worlds policeman." Nationalreview.com. 17 September 2014. Web. 5 March 2014. Reed, John. “Should America be the policemen of the world?”. Johnreed.com. nd. Web. 5 March 2014. Richman, Sheldon. “The US must not be the worlds policeman”. Reason.com. 8 September. 2013. Web. 5 March 2014. Schnieder, Bill. “Americans tire of “world police” role”. Huffintonpost.com. 9 September 2013. Web. 5 March 2014. Snyder, Michael. “Why the United States can no longer afford to police the world.” Endoftheamericandream.com. 2 July 2011. Web. 5 March 2014.

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