by Joseph Malek

Created on: March 18, 2008   Last Updated: February 23, 2011

For as long as I can remember, the people within the United States of America have been helping people within other Countries make a better life for themselves. You see, more often than not, some those people migrated to the United States of America and did make a new life for themselves, and sent money and goods to their friends and relatives within the Country from which they came. Some of those people were also educated within the United States of America and subsequently went back to their own country to help their own people. As such, the United States of America made an indirect positive impact within each of those countries. 

When Kennedy became President of the United States of America the Peace Corps was created in which to help people within the, so called, Underdeveloped Countries improve their standard of living within those Countries. With the help of the Government of the United States of America, the members of the Peace Corps provided education, medical care and the equipment and the training required for those Foreigners to make a better life for themselves.

At that time, it was the right and proper thing to do, as a way to promote the well meaning intentions, World-Wide, of the Government of the United States of America and its people. You see, the more friends you have, the less likely it is that your friends will go to war against you, as supporters of your enemies.

Back in the 1960s, the United States of America needed all the friends that it could get, because we were in the midst of fighting the Cold War against the spread of Communism that was promoted, World-Wide, by the Governments and the people of China and the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics.

So, as a result, the people and the Country of the United States of America truly had to show the people within the other Nations of the World that "We People" and our Political System wasn't as bad as was claimed by the Communists.

Suddenly, our Foreign Policy became nothing more than the donation of the services of people, machinery, food, money and other products, in the form of Foreign Aid, in which to make friends and influence the behavior of other people within other Countries.

Yes, the people of the United States of America and its supporters won the Cold War, but now we and our supporters are fighting two wars against Terrorism. For many reasons, it seems that some people on Earth truly hate the people and the Government of the United States of America.

As such, I believe that meaningful negotiation and the extension of a helping hand, instead of bombs and bullets that create a great deal of grief, death, pain and suffering, is the best way to again achieve peace within the Middle-East and the other places on Earth where death, pain, grief and suffering continues to exist for those within those places.

You see, if the people within Israel did as I suggest, the entire Earth would truly be a better place for all of the people who live upon it. All people are created equal but the passage of time, ones gained wisdom or stupidity, ones greed or generosity, ones selfishness or charity, ones heartlessness or kindness and/or ones wealth or poverty eventually define who each of us is.

Yes, by example, the people within the United States of America have and will continue to make a positive direct and./or indirect impact on the people of the World. The idea being is to make life better for everyone.

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