From my perspective USA under Reagan and the Bushes got involved across the world more than Pres Obama. Especially in the middle East. .... Our news reports that President Obama has said he wants to concentrate internally rather than the rest of the world ....
When America does get involved, its chiefly when American interests are in danger (such as oil etc). Also because of the Jewish influence everything comes across as pro Israel and very anti muslim ....
The world has some large issues to sort out including sharing the wealth and fairness for all. America is in a great position to help sort out some of these issues. A great opportunity lost.
Reagan is credited with ending the cold war, bringing down the E-W German wall, and crashing the Soviet economy with the nuclear arms race. He chose to create a fictitious thing called "Star Wars" which our government spent billions on promoting but never really existed, physically. Reagan had a tremendous amount of charisma (remember he was an actor first). His domestic policies, however, tripled our national debt during his 2 terms with his implementation of Supply Side Economics (also called Trickle Down Eco., Voodoo Economics), encouraged vulture & crony capitalism, and drove a big wedge into the income equality of the rich vs poor. Of course Republicans will totally deny this, however, as their economic platform clearly relies on Reagan's "supply-side" theory that if you cut the taxes of the wealthy, jobs will be created for the poor ... that's been proven wrong by practically every economist, and our country's insistence to continue applying "supply-side" theory has created much of our existing national debt. Our government edges closer and closer to becoming an oligarchy than a democracy every day. Now, our Supreme Court judges have started choosing sides.
Our involvement in the Middle East accelerated with the World Trade Center attack, and Americans in general, have had a terrible attitude toward the Islamic world. It appears, to many of us, that peaceful Muslims are afraid to stand up and fight their own extremists, who cause most the havoc in the region. Here in the US many of us notice that Muslims are mostly silent as to what is going on overseas. We wonder why they don't "speak out" against the extremists, but they rarely do. Over 5,000 of our soldiers died (250,000 permanently wounded), trying to help stabilize Iraq & Afghanistan over the past 10+ years. For the most part we have seen these countries unappreciative and unwilling to fight for a stabilized government, themselves. We should have never entered the second Iraq war.
The war in Iraq was a fraudulent war; your own Tony Blair got suckered into the fray and paid heavily for it. Yes, it was over protecting the world oil supply and was caused by our VP Chaney and Donald Rumsfeld feeding intentionally, false information to our then-President Bush about weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). Many of us feel Chaney & Rumsfeld should have been imprisoned, but Bush made sure that didn't happen, and when our current President, Obama, took office, he elected not to pursue charging them. Rumsfeld, by the way, quietly resigned; Cheney, however, is a very powerful individual and still a pain in our current government's ass. He's trying to promote his own ******* into the political arena. She's about as informed as her *******. Cheney has
never admitted making a political mistake ... never!
President Obama is focusing on domestic policies more than foreign policies because that's what he said he would do and it is what most the American people want done. The citizens of our country have had a belly full of war. If Republicans were in power, in Washington, we'd still be in Iraq and Afghanistan, and probably in Iran and/or Syria. The Arab world has been fighting each other for centuries ... we should never gotten involved.
Question back to you ... please explain your last underlined comments
"The world has some large issues to sort out including sharing the wealth and fairness for all. America is in a great position to help sort out some of these issues."
Thanks ...
Mac