1. American Foreign Policy

2. The U.S. is highly influential in the world. The global reach of the United States is backed by a $14 trillion economy, approximately 25% of the world’s money and a defense budget of $711 billion which is more than all the other nations combined. Wikipedia

3. Goals of American Foreign Policy to create a more SECURE, DEMOCRATIC, and PROSPEROUS world for the benefit of the American people and the international community US Department of state

4. Questions you must ask yourself

5. Is America more secure?

6. Oklahoma City bombing

7. Attack on the USS Cole warship in Yemen

8. Simultaneous US Embassy Bombings in 1998 In KenyaIn Tanzania

9. 9/11 Attacks

10. Is the World more SECURE?

11. Since World War II or has some people put it after the creation of the United Nations

12. Korean War - 1950 3,000,000 deaths

13. Iran-Iraq War 1980 - 1988 1,500,00 deaths

14. Vietnam War 1959 -1975 4,000,000 deaths

15. Second Congo War 1998 - 2003 4,500,000 deaths

16. Are the USA more democratic?

17. Gore loses in recount in Florida

18. Fraudulous Elections in OHIO?

19. When the country held the Presidential election last November, Americans yawned. Barely half the voting age population voted - the lowest turnout since 1924. New York Times – May 1989

20. Is the World more democratic?

21. Democracy in Irak Since the american invasion approximately 1,000,000 have died, many more since the embargo. US supported, trained and armed Saddam Hussein

22. Democracy in Panama US supports drug dealer to put him in power then invades his country when he renegs.

23. Democracy in Iran America overthrows the democratically elected prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh to install a cruel dictator…the Shah Rezah Pahlavi

24. Are the United States more prosperous?

25. Millions of Americans lose their homes due to foreclosures

26. Do you really think they are more prosperous?

27. Unemployment in US is close to 30 million or roughly the population of Canada

28. 50 million Americans do not have Health Care

29. Is the World more prosperous?

30. What do you think?

31. Dinner from the dump

32. Famine in Ethiopia

33. Poverty in South America

34. Homelessness in Bangladesh

35. So, the goals of American Foreign Policy are again… to create a more SECURE, DEMOCRATIC, and PROSPEROUS world for the benefit of the American people and the international community

36. How do you think they did?

37. Colin Powell telling the UN Iraq has weapons of mass destruction

38. Colin Powell on WMD in Iraq A former top aide to Colin Powell says his involvement in the former secretary of state's presentation to the United Nations on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was "the lowest point" in his life.

39. Iran Contra Affair

40. Oliver North pleads the 5th Amendment

41. MAD Mutually assured destruction (M.A.D.) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two opposing sides would effectively result in the destruction of both the attacker and the defender, becoming thus a war that has no victory nor any armistice but only total destruction

43. Dolls are boobytrapped or strewn about in minefields

44. Lady Diana tried to ban landmines that killed and maimed children

45. Yet the most powerful nations on Earth refuse to sign the ban on personal landmines

47. US is the largest arms dealer in the world