Foreign Policy

Foreign policy seems to be really big business for the United States as a whole. I can't say that I agree with the methods that are used to promote foreign policy, or that I agree with what happens to the citizens of other countries that are affected by our foreign policy. I have read numerous articles and listened to the news regarding foreign policy. Currently we are in the middle of what I consider two wars over in the middle east. Why exactly are we there? Is it because we want to help these other nations form a democracy? Or perhaps that we want to nip terrorism in the butt, because of what happened on September 11, 2001?

I think that these are underlying truths. However, after listening to the news and then reading the many different articles, and even having discussions with friends, family, and even complete strangers I think the truth lies in money and power.

I have learned over the last several weeks in my college course that money and power are politics. But do we ever think about the lives that we are changing or perhaps ending. Is it really worth the pain and agony that these other countries are experiencing just so that America can get whatever the upper hand is?

Foreign policy deals with economics, military, industrial, farming, and above all what can the United States get out of whatever country we are trying to get it from.  The United States has laws regarding the age and hours that a person can work and even a minimum wage that can be paid to an individual. We have laws against child labor. Jobs are being sent over seas because corporations and big business stand to make a higher profit because labor and even materials are cheaper in other countries than our own. Their are children working in these plants making little to no money and working in absolutely horrible conditions. Citizens of other countries are making less money than what they could make here in the United States working for McDonald's or Wendy's. The conditions in which they are working are horrible, and if they were working here in the United States these factories and businesses would be closed down by the labor board or even OSHA.

We need to step up to the plate and prove that what we do here at home is just as good as what we do overseas. If we can't than we shouldn't be there at ALL!!!!

 I think that this image that I found explains it all. What are your thoughts?