Israel/Palestine
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Portion of a Youtube video in "Crash Course" series by author John Green recaping the history of the Jewish state of Israel, and how the UN and other countries have been involved. "Conflict in Israel and Palestine: Crash Course World History 223." YouTube, uploaded by John Green, 28 Jan. 2015, www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wo2TLlMhiw. Accessed 31 Oct. 2017.
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North Korea
Since the death of his father, Kim Jong Un has accelerated the pace of North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests, stamped out foreign media, and tightened the seals on the country’s already closed borders." Effective sanctions require years of investigation and coalition building; they cannot be turned on and off in an instant. So this strategy will take time, determination, and a willingness to accept that U.S. relations with Pyongyang will have to get worse before they can get better. " A series of quotes regarding current foreign Policy with North Korea, from a book review of the account "Getting Tough on North Korea"
Stanton, Joshua, et al. "Getting Tough on North Korea." Foreign Affairs, vol. 96, no. 3, May 2017. MasterFILEPremier,eds.a.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/ detailvid=9&sid=ce2d4bb8-fafb-4c09-ae75a0b1be2075fa%40sessionmgr4007&bdata=JnNp dGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU%3d#db=f5h&AN=122467930. Accessed 28 Sept. 2017. |
A tweet by the current leader of the "free world" addressing North Korea's Kim Jong Un's statements about nuclear weapons
NuclearButtonTweet.Twitter,2Jan.2018,twitter.com/realDonaldTrumpref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor. |
Iraq/Iran
A political cartoon by Carlos Latuff about the role of AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) in the potential bombing of Iran Latuff,Carlos."Don'tBombIran."Wikimedia,upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Latuff-iran.gif. Accessed 12 Jan. 2018.
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Since last spring, at least two Congressional subcommittees have been investigating American policy toward the arming of Iraq. They are asking why both the Reagan and Bush Administrations continued military support for Iraq even after the war with Iran. One of them, a House Agriculture subcommittee, is investigating the use of Agriculture Department commodity credits to underwrite the sale of American high-tech goods to Iraq. In a hearing last August, the panel's chairman, Representative Charles Rose, Democrat of North Carolina, asked whether Mr. Hussein "may have misjudged how far he could go with George Bush because of this country's arms sales to Iraq." Excerpt from article from the New York Times regarding investigations of previous involvement and aid of various groups in the Middle East
Hersh, Seymour M. "U.S. Secretly Gave Aid to Iraq Early in Its War Against Iran." New York Times, 26 Jan. 1992, www.nytimes.com/1992/01/26/world/ us-secretly-gave-aid-to-iraq-early-in-its-war-against-iran.html?pagewanted=all. Accessed 31 Oct. 2017. |
Cuba
The Trump administration recently expelled 15 Cuban diplomats from the United States, pulled non-essential personnel from Cuba, and warned Americans not to travel to the island. They did this not to erase Obama’s Cuba policy, but because someone—and there’s no public evidence yet that it was the Cuban government—appears to have sickened nearly two dozen American diplomats, perhaps using mysterious sonic weapons."
Quote about Trump's most recents moves regarding worsening diplomacy with Cuba, after it improved for the first time in decades under the Obama administration
(Friedman, Uri. "Is Obama's Foreign-Policy Legacy Disappearing?" The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2017, www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/10/trump-obama-foreign-policy-iran/542727/. Accessed 31 Oct. 2017.)
Public Opinion
"The question of foreign policy is a straightforward one. Most presidents - like them or not - have a guiding vision, what it is they stand for, and that signals to foreign counties what we will and won't do and it forms the framework that guides the national security adviser and the secretary of State and others in the policymaking process," Ms. Pletka says. "But I didn't see any worldview after the first 100 days of this White House, and I don't think there is one now."
An opinion reflective of many American citizens personal opinions on Donald Trump's odd morality guiding his foreign policy and inconsistencies. LaFranchi,Howard."USForeignPolicy:WhoisinCharge?"TheChristianScienceMonitor,2017.StudentResourcesinContext,ic.galegroup.com/ic/suic/NewsDetailsPage/NewsDetailsWindowdisableHighlighting=false&displayGroupName=News&currPage=&scanId=&query=&docIndex=&source=&prodId=SUIC&search_within_results=&p=SUIC&mode=view&catId=&u=mnkbstmar&limiter=&displayquery=&displayGroups=&contentModules=&action=e&sortBy=&documentId=GALE%7CA504597657&windowstate=normal&activityType=&failOverType=&commentary=.
An opinion reflective of many American citizens personal opinions on Donald Trump's odd morality guiding his foreign policy and inconsistencies. LaFranchi,Howard."USForeignPolicy:WhoisinCharge?"TheChristianScienceMonitor,2017.StudentResourcesinContext,ic.galegroup.com/ic/suic/NewsDetailsPage/NewsDetailsWindowdisableHighlighting=false&displayGroupName=News&currPage=&scanId=&query=&docIndex=&source=&prodId=SUIC&search_within_results=&p=SUIC&mode=view&catId=&u=mnkbstmar&limiter=&displayquery=&displayGroups=&contentModules=&action=e&sortBy=&documentId=GALE%7CA504597657&windowstate=normal&activityType=&failOverType=&commentary=.