The above trailer for "Team America: World Police" is somewhat relevant,
and if you haven't seen the movie...I highly recommend it.
and if you haven't seen the movie...I highly recommend it.
From Kwonsok:
Note: Only for 11-C Wednesday. Other classes can respond for extra credit.
Note: Only for 11-C Wednesday. Other classes can respond for extra credit.
I read the following articles, and thought about it for a while.
Mr. Garrioch says that the following article is also related to this topic.
The following is my essay after reading the two articles given above.
America is the most powerful country in the world. No one can deny this fact. Only America currently has stealth jet fighters. The economy of the whole world is based on the American dollar. America is a pretty “nosey” country since it always intervenes in the problem of other countries. All these facts play a role in proving that America is a powerful country. However, these facts do not make America the “most” powerful country in the world. The most critical reason why America is the most powerful country in the world is somewhat more ideological then the facts stated above.
America is the most powerful country in the world. No one can deny this fact. Only America currently has stealth jet fighters. The economy of the whole world is based on the American dollar. America is a pretty “nosey” country since it always intervenes in the problem of other countries. All these facts play a role in proving that America is a powerful country. However, these facts do not make America the “most” powerful country in the world. The most critical reason why America is the most powerful country in the world is somewhat more ideological then the facts stated above.
America is a country that does “anything” to protect the rights and freedom of its citizens. This is what makes America the most powerful country in the world. The assassination of Osama Bin Laden can be a good example. Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the 9.11 terror in 2001. America’s response to such actions was simple: Find and kill Osama Bin Laden until his heart stops beating. And that is what they did. America kept on trying for a decade to show what happens to the world if someone violates the freedom and rights of its people. Even if America failed to kill Bin Laden this time, America surely would not give up.
There are many other examples. America took part in the Korean War to block the spread of communism and conclusively, protect the democratic freedom of its people. America leads the movement of denuclearizing the world to protect its citizens from nuclear threat. America creates military bases in other countries, including Korea, to protect its citizens in that area. All of these actions can be justified from the American point of view. But can it be justified from the points of views of other countries?
As a Korean, I view America’s actions as the following. Sometimes, I view American action as beneficial to Korea, such as helping Korea out during the Korean War. During other times however, I view American action as very cunning in a negative sense. For instance, America says that the world needs to be denuclearized for the safety of everyone, but the irony is that America itself possesses nuclear weapons. So isn’t the underlying mentality of such actions not to protect “all” people of the world but just to protect “its” citizens? America creates all sorts of justifications to intervene in the issues of other countries to protect its citizens. I think of such actions as hypocritical and devilish.
However, I do not blame America for acting in such ways. America is faithfully carrying out its role of what a country should do: protect the rights and freedom of its citizens at “all” times. America is just doing what it should do, even if such actions are hypocritical and devilish. Instead, I think that other countries, including Korea, should emulate what America is doing. For example, Korea should not give cash to North Korea to create nuclear weapons which in turn would threaten Korea itself, but get revenge on North Korea for the men who sacrificed their lives to protect Korea.
Selfishness, although it is something not thought of as a good quality, is the nature of human beings, and it actually promotes capitalist development. Similarly, countries, too, should be “selfish” by safeguarding the freedom and rights of its citizens because such actions are the reasons why countries exist.
What do you guys think about American actions to protect the freedom and rights of its citizens? Do you agree on the claim that countries should be “selfish”? Can such “selfishness” of countries be justified?
Debate Motions
1. THB American actions to protect the freedom and rights of its citizens can be justified.
2. THB countries should be “selfish.”
2. THB countries should be “selfish.”
3. THB “selfishness” of countries can be justified.
* The last two motions are somewhat similar, but the following is how they are different. It might be right that countries should be “selfish,” but such “selfishness” might not be justifiable. For instance, one should, in the mentality of a few conservative people, kill a person if that person killed one’s parents, but clearly killing cannot be justified in all cases.
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