However, the opposing side of the Republican Party criticizes the growing isolationist agenda within the party, resulting in a widening division among the once unified party on foreign policy issues (Parsons). ... The air raid missed the intended target of a military missile site and struck an apartment building, crushing residents under the debris who were asleep inside. ... Senators John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, two of the GOP's leading figures on defense and foreign policy, brought the debate to the public eye on Sunday. The two leaders believe the c...

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President Bush declared the preservation of American core values, global support of free and open societies, and preemptive wars against terrorist groups and states within the "axis of evil" as the major points of the post-9/11 foreign policy of the United States. Taking action on that foreign policy, the United States waged a war against terrorism which initiated the invasion of Afghanistan to bring justice to al Qaeda for their terrorist attacks, remove the Taliban regime that supported al Qaeda and their declaration of holy war against America, and establish peace and democracy i...

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March 2003 was a turning point in modern American and world history; it marked a change in foreign policy of America, moving from a defensive military policy, to one of pre-emptive war. ... As a result of Saddam's defiantness President Clinton identified Saddam as a threat to both American and world security, an official in the Clinton administration said, "Washington already believes it has all the authority it needs to launch military action in Iraq."(Strobel) When discussing the military options in Iraq, President Clinton said, "Military bombing could remove Saddam's chemical, b...

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We definitely need a change in our home and foreign policies and therefore it is very important who will be chosen to be our next president. ... Further more he will work to expand equal rights to same-sex couples and ban workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation, strengthen federal protections against anti-gay violence, give federal employees the right to name same-sex partners as beneficiaries, remove bias from our immigration laws, and end the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell- policy. ... In addition, a major issue that Dean will fight for to change is our foreign...

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Sanctions resumed with increased ferocity during the Reagan administration, with extensive sanctions including even items which can be adapted for military purposes, such as scuba gear. ... The Clinton administration also passed the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act 1996, aiming to press foreign companies to join the US in boycotting Iran's oil and gas industry. ... The chosen path to a solution for Iranian/Western tensions have successfully diminished the threat posed to World Order, and have done so in a virtually peaceful way without military action. ... This was done peacefully, conformin...

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Another significant omission in the inaugural address involved clear plans for foreign policy because although he certainly never use the term "imperialism," he was still able to convey an attitude of imperialism by describing America as "a seed upon the world, taking root in many nations", invoking an image of the United States influence in the domestic matters of other countries as beautiful flowering plants that would only develop into blossoming democracy. ... In fact, when Bush said that the United States would "build our defenses beyond challenge, lest weakness invite challenge" he was c...

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"The purpose of British troops in Iraq is to discover and destroy any weapons of mass destruction," said the defence minister, Geoffrey Hoon, regarding the deployment of troops to the Gulf in coalition with American forces. The consequential expulsion of the regime of Saddam Hussein has, no doubt, ...

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Take the New York Post for example, Ruth Shalit wrote a report on the Washington Post's handling of integration in the workforce, stating that "there were no black assignment editors, no black foreign correspondents, no black reporters on the National staff." (111) And while the Post was lacking racial diversity in the office, William McGowen of the Manhattan Institute wrote "Coloring the News", where "his eagerness to accuse the media of attacking racism where it does not exist." (112) The book, which used sources from men and women who were also strictly conservatives, made outrageous a...

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The fact that the global peace movement should be referred to with a term usually reserved for geopolitical bodies with massive economic, political and military resources like the USA is evidence of the massive support that it has been afforded. ... Men, women and children representing no other social group than society itself chose to attend to demonstrate their shared antipathy not only to the war in Iraq, but to a whole host of other American foreign policies that they are in disagreement with. ...

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After he passed away, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference helped for Congress to come up with the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act. ... Al Gore, in the book Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Political Issues, expresses that Congress didn't authorized the addition of the Use of Military Force, and that the administration did looked for other routes to have the correct wording inserted, but Congress didn't agreed either. ...

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