War on Terror, or just others?

Although the United States may have labeled their latest war for oil the the "War on Terror", it begs the question who are we so afraid of? It seems the United States is just afraid of everyone different than our predominantly Americanized Presidents and other members of the U.S. Government we select. But even if we don't fear them, is the rest of the world getting fed up with our meat-head approach to policing over them?

The United States sets up military bases all over the world in order to maintain its complete military power over other countries such as it has for China and North Korea to ensure it maintains control over the farthest corners of the world. But the United States fails to think about the fact that maybe those nations don't want the influence of the United States in their country.

Although O'Keefe tries to make the point that the United States tries very hard to make these military complexes on foreign soil have the least effect as possible it still begs the question should they even be there. We try not to get too many, and keep the ones we have relatively low key in order to avoid getting any publicity from the people of the home countries but that does not mean they are okay with us having them. In my opinion the United States only keeps them low key in order to have these military bases, not because they actually care about the civilians of the countries.



If the people were actually given enough control in order to make changes in their countries and weren't already faced with more serious issues at hand how many of these countries people would actually be okay with the United States military bases on their soil? New Zealand for one already spoke up against these “temporary bases” that have were at one point stopping points for large U.S. vessels during the cold war. If China were to build a military base somewhere in the United States, the civilians would speak out against it.

The United States may believe that they can treat others however they want, and roam around the world pretending that they control everything, but it does not mean that we actually do. Eventually the other countries of the world are going to get fed up with America, like we are already seeing with our reputation diminishing with each war and act of terrorism that we commit around the world. And as we spend all our money now attempting to take control of oil reserves and diminish cultures that our leaders disagree with, we slowly begin to lose the economic advantage that the United States has always had. Without our economic advantage over other countries we may no longer be the super power that we are now.