Americas Challenges

America faces many different challenges all around the world. In Europe, some of the many issues that the United States face is Greece possibly giving up the euro as its currency, Germany becoming the world’s fourth largest economy, and working with Russia on issues like the conflict in Syria. In Africa, AIDS has affected a quarter of the population and killed more than 15 million Africans since the epidemic began 30 years ago. The U.S. is also responding to the attack of four Americans in Libya. Iran is continuously defying the United Nations with its nuclear weapons program in the Middle East. Also in Syria, a civil war with the rebels fighting to overthrow the regime of President Bashar al-Assad has started. The U.S. faces many difficult issues in Asia including: China becoming the world’s second largest economy behind the United States, Japans meltdowns at several damaged rectors, the plans to withdraw all combat troops from Afghanistan, and North Korea’s new dictator showing no sign of reforming the failed economy. In North America, the United States is dealing with the melting ice sheets in Canada, the drug cartels in Mexico, President Raul Castro in Cuba, and the cholera epidemic in Haiti. Brazil is the largest economy in South America and one of the biggest democracies in the world. The Amazon plays a key role in mitigating climate change and Venezuela is going down an anti-American path due to President Chavez in South America.
I believe the most important issues to the United States right now are the troops in Afghanistan, China’s Economy and Iran’s nuclear facilities. The troops in Afghanistan are important because the U.S. plans to withdraw soon and a deal with the Taliban is very unlikely so the country could become chaotic again once the U.S. leaves. China has surpassed Japan with second-largest economy right behind America and in a decade they could take over us. Iran is going against the United Nations with its nuclear weapons and Israel has