U.S. Involvement In Third World Countries

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Scott St. Germain WRT 101 Section FY02 U.S. Involvement in Third World Countries “Do-gooders” are people who believe that everyone must contribute to help straighten out the world and try to be a hero in saving other countries. “Do-gooders” will help out anybody and feel as though it is our job as a country to make life in other countries better. I defend the statement that Harvey Wallbanger makes when stating that “Americans cannot and should not be straightening out all the misery in the world.” However, I also agree that America should help out other countries in short term instances, like Liberia. Before we help out other countries, though, and not get anything out of it, we must first realize how it will hurt us economically, as well as emotionally with possible violence. Also, when America itself has problems, we should be more focused on correcting our own country rather than helping others. Not many people realize the fact that the U.S. really isn’t doing as well as we should be. Putting money into operations such as “Operation Iraqi Freedom” because of the fact that we lost an incredible amount of money on something pretty pointless. Iraq is still terrible and will continue to be terrible. Spending money on improving other countries isn’t always going to have a positive impact. The U.S. has spent over $915 billion on the Iraq war alone, just to get nothing out of it except a sense of security for some people who believe they can’t attack again. There will always be terrible people in the world who want to do horrible things, and we will never end that. Although Iraq was a complete waste of money, Liberia was not. Liberia is a country that just needed to be put on track, as opposed to Iraq and Afghanistan where it will take an unknown amount of time and money to make things the way they can be. America just needs to spend money in the

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