The final debate is over and you have two weeks to make up your mind, if you haven’t already on whom our next President will be. I expected the foreign policy debate to be boring and repetitive and with the exception of a few “zingers” by the President, I got what I expected. Although I didn’t find the debate enjoyable, it did make me think about things in a different light, and that’s what I want to talk about today.
I have often wondered why on earth the U.S. feels the need to impose its values, policies, and leadership structure on other nations besides our own. It seems to me that all our efforts would be better served taking care of the problems we have here in our own country. It amazes me that we are eager to feed, house, and provide healthcare to the people of other countries, but when it comes to the citizens of the United States it’s ok to let them suffer. What amazes me even more is, not only do some government officials think its ok, but a large faction of U.S. citizens themselves think its ok too. If an American falls on hard times and needs assistance, he or she is viewed as lazy, or a burden on the system. We are a socialist nation if we help out our own citizens, but we are a generous and benevolent worldwide leader if we help out the citizens of other nations.
Am I the only one that views this as crazy and backwards? Maybe it’s beyond my realm of understanding, but it seems to me that you can’t fix other people’s problems until you fix your own.
Last night Mitt Romney said “What I’m afraid of is we’ve watched over the past year or so, first the president saying, ‘Well, we’ll let the U.N. deal with it.’ And Assad — excuse me, Kofi Annan — came in and said we’re going to try to have a cease-fire. That didn’t work. Then it went to the Russians and said, ‘Let’s see if you can do something.’ We should be playing the leadership role there.”
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/romney-flubs-middle-east-geography-obama-foe-record-wrong-article-1.1189899#ixzz2A8pWQ6kq.
My question is why should the U.S. take a leadership role in a place that doesn’t want to be led? Why should we give guns and ammunition to a set of militants to take over a government, only to have those same militants turn the guns and ammunition that we gave them against us? Why should we force our democracy down the throats of others, who will only come to resent and hate us for it? I now like the tune the President and Vice President are singing, which is to let the people of each nation take care of, and rebuild their own country.
“What I think the American people recognize is, after a decade of war, it’s time to do some nation-building here at home. And what we can now do is free up some resources to, for example, put Americans back to work, especially our veterans, rebuilding our roads, our bridges, our schools.” (Barack Obama)
I think it’s time we show love to the people here at home, the people we see every day. I think it’s time to clean up our country before we try and clean up anybody else’s. If the United States truly wants to be a leader in the world, we should show the world that we know how to take care of our own! 
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