Cold War Vs. United States

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in Kuwait. Another example would be when
Iraq's government massacred thousand of ethic minority Kurds when the Kurds
rebelled against Iraq government in northern Iraq. The United States did not do
a lot to help the Kurds because United States and the rest of the countries
around the world recognized Iraq as a sovereign state in the international
community even though that United States had a large military presence in the
Persian gul f area during that time.
More and more, non goverment organizations also play very important
roles in world peace. Since 1945, the United Nations, a non government
organization, has helped to bring cease-fire agreements to numerous hot spots
around the globe in place like Cambodia or the Mid-East. Individual persons also
play important roles in world peace. Such as former President Jimmy Carter, who
helped negotiate the peace agreement that restored the democratic elected
President Aristide back to his office in Haiti and avoided a direct ...

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certain limits. Another issue here is the
environment. Because the United States government built thousands of nuclear
bombs to increase its military strength during the cold war, it costs more
money now to take the bombs apart and safely store all the hazardous material
without polluting the environment. It seems to makes absolutely no sense at all
to spend money on something and turn around and spend more money to take it
apart. the United States should wake up from its Cold War dream and start to
face the reality of the twenty first century. Increasing military strength
always leads to a fear and mistrust by other countries and an arms race by
Realism's way of thinking. There is ...

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