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Military Needs to Step Down
General Creighton Abrams said, "There must be within our Army, a sense of purpose. There must be a willingness to march a little farther, to carry a heavier load, to step out into the dark and the unknown for the safety and well-being of others (United States)." U.S. military troops are indeed marching farther and farther, expanding into different nations at this very moment: Afghanistan, Egypt, Indonesia, Columbia, Japan, and 58 other countries. However, this isn't what Abrams had in mind. In total, there are 255,065 U.S. military personnel deployed worldwide (Sivitz). But who assigned the U.S. military the task of serving as an international police force? For years, U.S. political and military strategists have conceived a fraudulent justification for increased military deployment that they call "The Global War on Terrorism." Did someone call them for immediate help? Did someone give them the right to occupy and invade? The answer is a resounding "No." In other words, the U.S. does not have the right to intervene in the matters of other nations. It is true that universally distributed military bases are not only for military occupation, but also for training, storage, and security. However, the public is mostly ignorant of the extent of the economic, diplomatic, and ethical...
The U.S. needs to step down from their so-called position as international policemen and withdraw their troops because it is weakening the country domestically, hurting its influence abroad, and is in conflict with international laws and relations.
One may ask where the idea began that the U.S. would assume the role of international police force and economic advisor? Briefly, that role was a result of the events that took place at the end and just after World War II. America had not been invaded, and had an economy that was growing stronger and indeed was one of the only major powers whose homeland was untouched by the ravages of World War II (with the exception of Pearl Harbor). Once the war ended, Josef Stalin, understandably paranoid about the military and civilian causalities during the war, set up a buffer zone across Eastern Europe and, in response to the U.S.'s Marshall Plan to aid Europe, began to funnel money into developing countries that either had been part of Europe's colonial Empire, or were in line for a new governmental system. If one imagines looking at the globe in 1946, the Soviet Union would see Japan as occupied by the United States, a looming presence in the Pacific and Indo-China by the United States, a Europe being propped up by the…
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