Foreign Policy, Strategic Studies, and International Relations

Quote of the Day:

"...it's not American strength that's provocative, it's American weakness."

-John R. Bolton


Thoughts?

Welcome

Wow, I figured I'd get an email notification when people joined, I hadn't realized we had 7 members already. Great to see people like the idea of discussing this genre from a Catholic perspective. Also glad to see there are other Catholic IR majors out there, I was beginning to lose hope!

For my part, I'm in the middle of a BS program in International Security and Intelligence Studies which will be completed at the end of this year and that rolls straight into an MS in the same field. Meanwhile I'm an Air Force intel guy and a korean linguist so apart from the general overview of the world the BS program is giving me, my particular area of hands-on specialty is, of course, the Korean peninsula situation.

What are everyone's thoughts on our policy towards both Syria and Iran at present, taking into account both the natural law with regard to human rights and, at the same time, national sovereignty?

Welcome to everyone.

@sinnseanair- you make some very good points.

I'm no PoliSci guy, but I believe the beginning of our victory will be when we wipe the stains of Political Correctness, Multiculturalism, and Absolute Relatavism from our collective conscience in America.

Because of these ideologies (a devil's trident, if you will), we can not speak the truth, as it may offend someone; we must recognize all other cultures as better than ours; and we are forced into thinking that we are the problem of all the current and historical bad things in the world, never mind what actually happened or is happening now.

Once we get our wits about us again and inflect genuine Catholic morality in our thoughts & decisions, our leadership in DC and around the world will fall in line.....meaning we must put the libtards and their ideology back where they belong.

As for Les Miles - he lost me this year. When hired, he was a Catholic (cradle), but now he attends some non-denom church that plays drums & electric guitar on campus. He's even having his children "re-baptized." Not to mention the poor showing due to sheer stubbornness in the NC game. Just sayin.....

We do not have a forieign policy at present. China is bilking us for every penny they can, then loaning us even more. India now has more of our daily electronics business than we have on our own soil. The so called "third world" is rapidly being overcome with radical Islamists. Iran is building a Nuclear Bomb and we are verbally sparing with Russia and China as to whether to stop Iran's banks from doing global transactions while giving Israel the cold shoulder. Syria is killing it's own people at the rate of hundreds a day while we boldly ask for a resolution against that in the UN, only to be rejected by the same Russia and China. Americans are being held in an Egyptian prison for no reason other than they are Americans and we sit on our hands and plead with them. We have an open boarder policy to those who desire to revive a history when parts of the United belonged to them and are trying very hard to take those parts back with illegal entrance and living in our country using our entitlment programs and medical facilities for their own advantage at the same time. We are finding plots to violently attack our country almost daily by Wabahists.

And during all that LSU looked like a middle school football team playing for the national championship. whoop whoop.

Now, Les Miles will make LSU great again next year, but what are you going to do Tiger about making America solvent again. And, you Political Science major, what are you going to do about loving international relations other than learn how to speak Chinese? Occupy a building? Show us how to defecate in a MacDonalds bag? Assault a female in a protest?

Pray tell us.

Foreign policy, whoop whoop!

YESSS.. I am a political science major and I love IR =)

So what is the best solution for this crusade? For that is how many see it. I have even heard it referred to as the "Oil Crusade". Historically, it's probably a great time for the Knights Templer to again become the agency of the Holy Church in the Holy Land. At home, we are under attack by our own laws stretched to fit a situation never intended by the writer and signers of our Constitution. There are those that are attacking not only our Holy Church, but all Christians. It is almost as if we have reverted to the times before Constitine embrased Christianity. We again have a poorly intrepreted religion of Islam not only desiring to regain the Holy Lands, but the entire world. Our Bible says to turn the other cheek, while theirs has now been interpreted by the followers of Wahabi to join in a "Holy Jihad" ridding the world of the non believers. So, once again we are figuratively in the Circus Maximus awaiting the lions to be unleased.
Do we just fall to our knees and pray? Or do we kill the lions, as in destroying the Wahabi and overturn our own increasingly secular nation, so that we may return to a more constitutional intended form of government so that we may freely worship in all the land? Therein lies the question.

I taught the Constitution is two universities. There are those that hold to the dictum of the Constitution being and ever evolving document. I admanatly disagree to the point of any law enacted has unintended consequences and there are those who would argue those intended interpretations daily.

There are those who keep body counts of our young men women and men who are perishing on this crusade, while forgetting the body counts of those who just went to work that day 9/11, forgetting the hundred of thousands that perished so that we would not have German or Japanese as our national language.

International Relations has always come about through power not used, but available for use. Every Empire in the history of our world has used sheer force to attain and maintain it, only to fall from within. Today we are a little over two and a quarter centuries into a grand experiment of a government of and by the governed under a set of laws. We have become a world power under those laws freely giving more than receiving. We conquered Germany and Japan only to spend billions helping them rebuild. Since 1950 we have forgotten what made us that power, at best a standoff in Korea, a complete loss in Vietnam letting the dominos fall, and now as it looks to the Wahabis as a running away in the middle east. As a government, during a time of economical depression we used to offer a hand up with jobs. Now, we just give money to the unemployed, money we do not have to give.

Now, tell some real solutions both nationally and internationally.

Hi, I do have a BA in Political Science with an emphasis in International Foreign Policy. I have to say that I graduated in 96 though and time has really marched by fast! Interested to hear what we talk about! I find the PanArab (correct term?) revolutions quite frightening in relation to my new (3 years) Catholicism view of the last days! Be ready! Johanna