Foreign Affairs of America

Foreign Affairs of America

Foreign Affairs of America
Thesis: Intervention should be the United States foreign policy because it increases our protection, has worked in the past, and in proven to be the best plan for the future.
I.     Our Protection
A. U.S. Citizens in the U.S.
      B.   U.S. Citizens in foreign countries
II.   Past Aid
    A.   Reagan
    B.   Others
III.   Future Aid
      A.   Policies
      B. Future















Foreign Affairs of America
Many critics are opposed to global intervention and think the money spent could be much better spent in America.   They think isolation is the ideal foreign policy because foreign affairs don’t concern us.   They have also told us we have done more harm than good, and it is time to concentrate on our own people.   People who believe in isolation are clearly ignorant to what the United States of America accomplishes.   By helping and rebuilding other nations we gain protection from them attacking us and they become our allies.   It also is our moral responsibility to help people in need as the only superpower.   Another thing is it protects American citizens and industries that are in those foreign countries.   Intervention should be the United States foreign policy because it increases our protection, has worked in the past, and in proven to be the best plan for the future.
The first reason intervention should be the roue we take is it adds to our own defense. By helping other countries that are in trouble economically, politically, or militarily, we become allies with them and are less susceptible to attack from them or anyone else that is allied to them.   Peter Shraeder stated “ It contributes to the broad cooperative relations which permit the presence of U.S. facilities or access by U.S. forces to host country facilities in time of threat to mutual interests thereby reducing the cost of U.S. defense” (100).   Also as our allies they will then support us if we need their help with something later.   William...