Election time, who did you vote for?

[Slimebeast]

fordy said:

Slimebeast said:

No, Im not facetious.

Yes, America absolutely is powerful! But Obama is too weak in his foreign policies. He's a bad negotiator, giving away American interests for free without getting something in return, not even much respect. America needs to be tougher against rogue states, tougher against Russia and China and against corrupt institutions such as the UN. And America needs to take back the global initiative, to become pro-active again in international conflicts.

So in other words, you want America to tell other countries what to do, right? The UN is suddenly corrupt because China and Russia's voices count, too. Well how about we remove their veto power from the security council, as long as America loses theirs, too. It's only fair...

You're talking as if America decides things without an agenda, but this is far from the case. they have just as much of an agenda as China and Russia do. Russia defends the Syrian reigime because it's their last air base in the middle east. America opposes the Syrian reigime because it's Russia's last air base in the middle east. You can go ahead and say it's all about human rights all you want, but where was America when Egypt were in the process of evicting Mubarak, who was in Israel's (and therefore America's) pocket? America only enacts when it's in THEIR interests.

First, American interests happen to be my interests .

Second, American interests are much more often morally right than Chinese and Russian interests, no matter the original motive.

Same with the UN. More than half of its members are dictatorships or very primitive democracies who don't know right from wrong. Their barbaric thinking is "blame America first" and condemn Israel no matter what.

So yes I want America to tell other countries what to do when it comes to important matters where they're right.

America stopped the genocide in Bosnia.

America tried to stop the genocide in Somalia.

America crushed the Talibans of Afghanistan.

America eliminated Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

America stopped the genocide in Kosovo.

America stopped the genocide and eliminated Muammar Khadaffi in Libya.

America eliminated Usama Bin Ladin.

And with Mitt Romney in power America would also eliminate Assad in Syria and prevent Iran from getting nukes.

None of these things would have been achieved without America. The EU and the UN have done nothing to solve international conflicts.