U.S. Strategic Foreign Policy: Weak and Unfruitful

My fellow Americans, today we live in an era where both the Western and the American ways of life are being challenged. These ways of life are being challenged by terrorists organizations around the world and nation-states that are ruled by dictators or religious groups that are hell-bent on the destruction of western civilization and the United States of America. Some of these terrorist organizations and nation-states have gone so far as to call America the "Great Satan" and have sworn to deal death and destruction to America using any and all means necessary. Because of this declaration of war, the US readily and actively acknowledges this war on terror and has taken steps to fight those who emerge to oppose us. Current U.S. policy allows the U.S. to wage war and take hostile actions to destroy all who get in our way, however, we are not utilizing every weapon in our arsenal. Why is that?

Since the end of the Cold War and the break up of the Soviet Union in the early 1990's, the United States has been searching for ways to adapt its current strategic military policies to conform to the transition into the new era of internation termoil, however, because of the Cold War mindset, America has been increasingly reluctant to utilize to the fullest potential, cold war weapons such as nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons of mass destruction. During the Cold War, America waged a campaign to limit and prevent the proliferation of such weapons, however, after the Cold War, all real efforts to attain those goals were abandoned, leaving the U.S. as the only world superpower with a stickpile of tens of thousands of nuclear warheads and an unknown number of biological and chemical weapons. Today, these weapons are maintained with no real target because the U.S. has no true or set plan as to the use and deployment of such weapons in emerging situations.

In a world where the U.S. has lost significant credibility and is the major target of terrorist organizations and nations such as North Korea, Iran, and Syria, the U.S. needs to show the world that the U.S. is not the country to mess with and that the U.S. will not tolerate any aggression from any nation whose only goal and objective is the destruction of America and the American way of life. In my humble opinion, the treaties and conventions and agreements that the United States entered into prohibiting the design and construction of weapons of mass destruction as well as their open testing and battlefield use no longer pertain to the world in the Post-Cold War era. The enemies of America will not abide by any treaty or convention, nor will they use restrain if they procure weapons of mass destruction and any means to deliver such a weapon, so why should the United States? Why must we "play fair" when the rules of war that we have agreed to abide by are just going to be manipulated and used by the enemy as a way to box us in and make it hard to eliminate any and all threats and potential enemies? In this day and age, the United States cannot afford to box itself in with international laws that applied to an era where everyone actually abided by them. The very laws that we have established in the past to protect us and our way of life will also lead to our very demise.

In conclusion, the United states must abolish its current strategic foreign policies and adopt a harder stance with terrorists and our enemies. We must begin production of strategic weapons of mass destruction and we must ACTIVELY show the world that we are not afraid to use these weapons at the blink of an eye towards any nation or terrorist organization that opposes or even supports the opposition of the United States. We must act now, for if we dont, we endanger the lives of ourselves and the American way of life.