Foreign Policy

I had written an argumentative paper for my composition class in the Spring Quarter at Minnesota School of Business (if you are going for a business degree go to that school, it is really great). The teacher said that we could write about any topic. So I decided to write about Nation Building.

While I was searching for things of Foreign Policy/Nation Building, I stubble on this article on the history of Nation Building of the United States, and how successful the United States were in Nation Building.

"Since 1898, the United States has been nation building"-Nation Building by me. It was in Cuba that the United States first intervention conflict. The war was to help Cuba to be independent from Spanish rule. The press played a big roll in starting the Cuba intervention. Some major reporters went down to Cuba and saw some things that Spain was doing to Cuba. The reporters stretched the truth on how bad Cuba was in. Spain was ruling Cuba with an iron fist but reporters decided to over play what was going on. The United States citizens, as whole, wanted something done about Cuba. So Congress took action to send the military down to Cuba to help the natives to be free.

Cuba was the first taste of Nation Building that the Untied States had.

Nation-Building, The American Way-Colonel Jayne A. Carson United States Army wrote about how Nation Building got its start and how the USA is doing now with Nation Building. In his paper he basically says that Nation Building only truly works when there is a major war against one country, like WWII Japan and Germany. Japan and Germany is rank in the top 5 economies in the world. All of the other nation building that the Untied States did never gotten as good as Japan and Germany. The cost of Japan and Germany to be a prosperous nation is too hard to calculate. Probably untold billions of dollars.

The cost of nation building is so costly and only works in certain conditions that is not worth the USA's money and blood to help the nations to be free. If a nation's citizen wants a change in leader/government the citizens must be united and must be like the Untied State revolutionary war.

Closing statement:
We should not nation build because it is way too costly.

References:
http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-top-ten/world-top-ten-gross-domestic-countries-map.html
http://www.fas.org/man/eprint/carson.pdf
Ron Paul, The Revolution A Manifesto (book)