Updates: 5/29/13 + 5/30/13

Yesterday (5/29/13) we completed a review chart on United States Diplomacy and the world. We reviewed the Monroe Doctrine, the Platt Amendment, the Roosevelt Corollary, Dollar Diplomacy, and Moral Diplomacy. For each one we found evidence of the United States acting as good neighbor or Evidence of the United States acting as an Imperial Power. For the most part the United States was acting as an Imperial Power under these policies. The United States was extending these countries powers and influences through diplomacy and military force.

Today (5/30/13) we had a debate about the Bush Doctrine. The Bush doctrine was created after the 9/11 attacks in 2001 by the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush. The Bush Doctrine has 3 revolutionary ideas: U.S must remain world’s only superpower, unchallenged by any other nation, U.S may need to attack an enemy first in self-defense,  and U.S will, if necessary, act alone to confront and eliminate threats to American security. After the debate I decided that the Bush Doctrine should not be allowed as a foreign policy because it allows the United States to go into other countries because we deem it necessary even though there is no need to.