Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 1
Critical Thinking Assignment
Write out your answers and submit them using the Dropbox in a RTF or Word doc format under the Assignment Course Tools under Critical Thinking Assignment One (where it will be worth a maximum of twelve points.
Should America export its version of democracy? Write as if you are telling the president what kind of foreign policy to follow. In order to make a convincing argument, you will need to tell him why this course of action should be followed. To do this, you will need to show the president how it will solve problems in other countries and in the United States. Keep in mind that these problems include the amount of power the government and people have and the economic impacts (on U.S. taxpayers and other countries) involved. Talk about what the US has been doing in Iraq and Afghanistan and what do you think it should do in Libya and Egypt and other similar countries.
Here are some viewpoints on exporting democracy:
Link to the Washington Times, a commentary from March 2006[->0]
Link to the Washington Post, an article from January 2006[->1]
Dear Mr. President,
The idea that freedom and democracy can be exported all over the world is an ancient dream. Athenian democrats, Russian Bolsheviks and, French revolutionaries to mention only the better-known cases, were convinced that their own political system was good enough to be donated to all peoples. But not even the path to freedom is carpeted with rose-petals: enthusiasm is often mingled with fanaticism; idealism must come to terms with the harsh laws of “Realpolitik”. That’s why the question states, whether if I would export America’s version of democracy? To me I would say that it was a dream for the Americans, so they could provide it for European people. Every Italian recalls the glorious days of the summer of 1944 and the spring of 1945, when the major cities of
The countries were liberated by allied
Critical Thinking Assignment
Write out your answers and submit them using the Dropbox in a RTF or Word doc format under the Assignment Course Tools under Critical Thinking Assignment One (where it will be worth a maximum of twelve points.
Should America export its version of democracy? Write as if you are telling the president what kind of foreign policy to follow. In order to make a convincing argument, you will need to tell him why this course of action should be followed. To do this, you will need to show the president how it will solve problems in other countries and in the United States. Keep in mind that these problems include the amount of power the government and people have and the economic impacts (on U.S. taxpayers and other countries) involved. Talk about what the US has been doing in Iraq and Afghanistan and what do you think it should do in Libya and Egypt and other similar countries.
Here are some viewpoints on exporting democracy:
Link to the Washington Times, a commentary from March 2006[->0]
Link to the Washington Post, an article from January 2006[->1]
Dear Mr. President,
The idea that freedom and democracy can be exported all over the world is an ancient dream. Athenian democrats, Russian Bolsheviks and, French revolutionaries to mention only the better-known cases, were convinced that their own political system was good enough to be donated to all peoples. But not even the path to freedom is carpeted with rose-petals: enthusiasm is often mingled with fanaticism; idealism must come to terms with the harsh laws of “Realpolitik”. That’s why the question states, whether if I would export America’s version of democracy? To me I would say that it was a dream for the Americans, so they could provide it for European people. Every Italian recalls the glorious days of the summer of 1944 and the spring of 1945, when the major cities of
The countries were liberated by allied