Providing for the American citizens is one thing, but ruling the free world and resolving all the problems that end up on the president's desk the true ultimate goal of a newly elected president. Each president serves their purpose but fail at many faults. Americans wait every day for their loved one to come back from Iraq, is an example. With every presidential candidate comes promises, and most of which are never kept. This is a huge opinioned based country and the foreign affairs essays by two presidential candidates can help determine which is full of force deriving from the want of a better country, or determine which is full of it. Rudolph W. Giuliani and Barack Obama are to very opinionated people in their beliefs but by their choice of words can you tell as a reader that both can contribute something to the United States.
Starting with Giuliani, he is what a conservative would consider their perfect candidate. His choice of action is so well thought up it almost seems that he already put it into play. He covers every question you might ask, and is very focused on his goal, which is to inform what his goals are, in foreign affairs, if he becomes president. Giuliani is very straightforward, eradicating the cliché of “if I become president: to “if I don't become president consequences can emerge” One of his most understandable acts would be his plan on Iraq. He firmly states that no other leader can bring peace to Iraq but the Iraq leaders themselves. Even with this strong statement, he believes that just taking the troops out won't fix the problem. We as a nation of freedom have to stay and finish what we started. His words include “The first step to realistic peace means balancing realism and idealism. Starting with realism he mentions that on a road to realistic peace we have to be realistic about our enemies. He implies greatly that we should HELP, not CONTROL, Iraq. We have to help Iraq build an accountable, functioning government that serves the needs of their populations, reduce violence within their borders, and eliminate the export of terror. He believes that we should also concentrate inward on a stronger defense. He believes in the saying “Brains over Brawn”, as well as adding ten new combat brigades, and installing a national defense system. Lastly he believes that more robust human intelligence such as satellites viewing weapons factories day and night is essential. One of what I think is one of his greatest words were “To rebuild is an essential because if not the benefits will not out weigh the costs”.
There is one part of the essay called “determined diplomacy” which states only one true fact and that is to the great tie between diplomacy and our strengths such as military, economics, and moral judgment. As for faults in his plans as future president, I saw no catastrophic flaws, as a reader of the foreign policy essay.
There is one catastrophic flaw though and he named Barack Obama. It may sound a little personal but here are a few things that a pensive, and inquisitive reader, sees. First, the fact that struck me the most was the part of his foreign policy about helping fellow country allies. He makes a statement that he will at all costs fix the “HISTORICAL”, as in going on for ages with out a solution, problems between Pakistan and India. This is a message that conveys the message that if he is president he will not stay within his own country and stray from his number one priority America's interest. Second, he wants to completely finish weapons of mass destruction from the face of the Earth. At the same time that he wants to remove all troops from Iraq, on March 31, 2009. Not even as a ruler of the world would, a realistic, person see that weapons of mass destruction will always be around because they derive from nature and you can't extinguish the sun for example; it's something that is unheard of.
One of his statements that appeared reasonable included that he will double our annual investment in meeting challenges by spending $50 billion by 2012, and make sure that the new resources are pointed to worthwhile goals.
Even with such immense flaws he does make some good points. He is very environmentally driven and what I would call a very “clean” person. He acknowledges the fact that the system of defense should be rebuilt, and modernized to a stable equilibrium of tranquility in the minds of the American citizens. His plan is to rebuild is to add 65,000 soldiers to the army and 27,000 to the Marines. He wants to prepare the US Army in case of another conflict outside of Iraq, and lower the 88% of the National Guardsmen that are not ready to deploy over seas. He greatly believes in the big aspect of things, for example he says that our enemy is global and should be dealt with, globally.
Both candidates have their way of portraying the perfect America to the inhabitants but until plans of promise and action are applied to fix internal and external problems of America, will the true freedom bell ring. Rudolph Giuliani tops in comparison to Barack Obama's essay because the quality of Giuliani's essay includes answers to unasked questions, realistic goals, and a very modern and optimistic approach on the problems he has to inherit if he takes presidency.
Barack Obama's essay was the complete opposite of that. One thing is to be kept in mind and that is “The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.” - Abraham Lincoln.
