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    their harboring of radical groups that posed a threat to the United States as warrants for American involvement in the Syrian Civil War (Fly). Fly also argues that the U.S. and its allies should establish protected zones around threatened cities — although he neglects to describe what he means by that — and “seriously consider arming the opposition” (Fly). Similar to the previous argument made by Abdulhamid, Fly argues that the United States has an obligation to the Syrian people to intervene in the

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    Middle East, the United States went from relative isolation to increased global involvement because of their urge for humanitarianism, economic self-interest, and the search for Manifest Destiny. The consequences of this increased global involvement on American society were the increase of immigrants, increase in resources and “Yellow Press” media. The United States were the helping hand to Cuba during when America was moving from relative isolation to increased global involvement. At the time of

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    31 to protest the US’s involvement in Vietnam, this is an example of how it was felt even in the United States and not just in Vietnam. These repercussions had a great impact on American society and even our foreign policy.     There were many reasons for the continued involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War. One idea that greatly influenced America's

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    The United States understood that it was a major deal to do anything they could to stop the spread of communism. Their involvement in Vietnam expressed how important it was for them to contain communism. In order to contain communism they used the process of the domino theory. The domino theory held that a communist victory in one nation would quickly lead to a chain reaction of communist takeovers in nearby states. In Southeast Asia, the United States government used the domino theory to justify

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    Vietnam War Propaganda

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    Within the context of the United States, wars, atrocities, and widespread violence has plagued our nation’s history. Although we go through periods of revolution and pride, a more critical and overarching perspective of American history reveals a common theme of war. Since the American Revolution of 1776, major wars like the Civil War and the Vietnam War have broadly changed the American landscape. In particular, the Vietnam War solidified widespread distrust in the American government because of

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    America’s involvement in Vietnam is that capitalist country South Vietnam would be overthrown by communist North Vietnam, unless The United States became involved in Vietnam to control the spread of communist activity. The United States feared communist ideals spreading globally during the 1950’s and replacing capitalism, this fear urged action to aid South Vietnam. Leading up to Vietnam war, the French colonized South Vietnam but were weakened by the calamity of World War 2. The United States sought

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    thousands of American mothers to surrender their sons to the heap of corpses. Nevertheless, the United States of America did not intrude into the eastern conflict until American involvement was found imperative by credible reasoning. Growing economic interests and violations of sea rights and the Monroe Doctrine accelerated the ongoing war to a conclusion by introducing the involvement of the United States of America. German expansionism provoked countless Americans who felt threatened and disrespected

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    Should the United States get involved in the Middle East? President Obama stated in his Anti-Terror Strategy address, "We continue to face a terrorist threat. We cannot erase every trace of evil from the world, and small groups of killers have the capacity to do great harm. That was the case before 9/11, and that remains true today” (Obama).The Middle East today is composed of very complicated religious tensions, unstable states, and rising terrorist organizations. The collapse of central governments

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    longest of Australia’s military engagement was the Vietnam War from 1965 to 1975. Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War was mainly centred on its fear of the ‘Domino Theory’, and its relations with the U.S through the Foreign policy which involved the ‘Forward Defence’ policy. The

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    is a constant grumble whenever the Army of the United States marches stating that we should simply mind our own business. These people have what can only be described as an ill-informed opinion on matters they are not equipped to understand. The foreign policy of isolationism is ineffective because we live in a world community, we have a moral responsibility to protect those weaker than us, and strategic level homeland defense requires our involvement in the affairs of other countries. What must

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