How do we fix the US economy: 2

In terms of international politics, Most US citizens have given away all their power to the overly educated and the rich. We were always taught that international politics was way too complicated. The people who knew about these things could take care of these issues.

The owners of multi-national corporations had a vested interest in the economic relationship between countries. Academics with a good and solid knowledge of foreign countries could help build solid bridges between countries.

With the Cold War and the War on Communism, I can certainly understand why the US supported dictators who would be fiercely anti-communist. Overall, I think the great leaders like Jack Kennedy and Ronald Reagan did a great job in defeating Communism. Once communism was defeated though, there was a vaccum. The sheer purpose of American foreign policy was to spread capitalism until Terrorism filled the void that Communism left behind.

BUT when I really look at American foreign policy now. I really don't see anything formed out of a deliberate plan or a wise mind. It really seems to be simple, and it seems to be more focused on stability in the region than any kind of call for democracy. Actually, the harder I think about it, the more I wonder why I am thinking so hard. It's really a politic that does not care about Israel or any other foreign country. It's more and more about the spread of certain corporations in a hostile country. In order to facilitate this, we need to put in someone in power who will make sure that he will safeguard the interests of those corporations. Giving money or bribes to these leaders or dictators will do nothing to help the middle or workingclass Americans. It is also expected that these leaders or dictators or individuals will not support terrorist groups or will weed them out. Well, the money does end up supporting the terrorists through the black market.

ALSO, there is almost an incredible economic tension between East Asia and America. The trade imbalance has to be one of the leading hurles in creating economic harmony between nations. The US and East Asia continues to act like this issue does not exist. Politically, again, the overly intelligent and the rich have decided that as long as East Asia helps out with the Terrorism issue, they will turn the other cheek in terms of economic fairness. China sees its loaning of money to America as its greatest help to America and expects the US to take care of Terrorism issues largely by itself.

If this is the economic politics that the empowered agree with, I really think they need to be disempowered. US citizens need to take the US back from these people who are protecting only their own interests.

To add, I cannot think that the US is hated so much in the world without thinking that there is something that the government does which has really broken the trust between the US and other countries. In conversations, I've heard people say, "America had burned many bridges." I've thought about those words for a while. I don't quite know what the words mean, but I get a sense of what they mean.