The Ethics of World Domination

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Throughout the past 70 years the U.S. has been involved in hundreds of conflicts all around the globe. Every time the United States troops are deployed to a foreign country, citizens of the U.S. want to know why. People begin to ask questions like, "what is the purpose of this?" or "what is the nature of our involvement?" Nobody wants to see the strong youth of our nation shipped of to a foreign country to get slaughtered without good cause. Millions of American men and women have devoted their lives to the service and protection of the freedoms that we as citizens of the United States hold dear. These people deserve the utmost respect from all citizens of the United States. When the government of our country see fit, our troops are sent to fight often in places that they have never even heard of. When they return they are heroes to be revered, or are they? All to often things go wrong in these foreign countries and the soldiers often end up taking the brunt of the nation's frustration. When the government makes mistakes and things do go wrong it causes the citizen of the U.S. to closer analyze the situation. The citizens of the United States want some answers and the government often fails in its attempts to satisfy the p

On September 15, 1950, after a daring amphibious attack 150 miles behind enemy line the US was able to push the North Koreans back into North Korea. This is where the war should have stopped. The North Koreans were in North Korea and the South Koreans had control over South Korea. Furthermore, China was threatening that if the US tried to unite Korea by force then they would enter the war on the side of the North Koreans. Despite both of these facts, the United States pushed further into North Korea. Knowing that it would cost thousands of American lives and thousands more Korean lives to unite a country that wanted to be separated, General Mc arthur and President Truman, with United Nation's support, pushed on. A two-year war ensued that would ultimately cost the lives of 140,000 American service men and women. In the end the country ended up just as it was before. Nothing lost, nothing gained.

The Korean War was a good example of ethical egoism. It was a war in which all the involved parties were looking out for their themselves and ignoring the effects that they had on everyone else involved. The utility on a more global scale was not considered because politicians were blinded by the attractiveness of glory and an opportunity to push their own political agendas.

During the period of 1946-1950 a forty-year period began called the Cold War. The Cold War was a period of aggression in the name of democracy. During this time the United States did some questionable activities under the guise that they were protecting against the spread of communism.

The United States' attack of Korea is considered to be one of the worst failures of intelligence and strategic leadership in the history of the United States military. In Washington, the excitement of victory on the battlefield on September 15, 1950 obscured the real objective of the war, which was to protect the freedom of the South Korean people and reinstall a South Korean government. In a shallow attempt to win seats in congress for the democrats, Truman pushed General Mc Arthur to continue the attack and try to roll back communism. A willing Mc Arthur was glad to oblige as he let his wish for military success and a heroic reputation get in the way of his competent operation of the United States military troops in Korea. The Korean War was a very political war with both the president and chief general directing the US forces looking for large victories to help bolster their careers. Truman was looking for democratic votes and Mc Arthur was looking for glory, but unfortunately there was no one looking out for the US troops or the desires of the South Korean people.

This is another example of egoism displayed by the United States. When the US decided to invade Cambodia, they did not take into account what might happen to the inhabitants of the area. They were thinking solely of what benefit it might have for the United States of America and not what the actual utility of the action might be on a global scale. They had not considered that millions of people might die as a result and the unfortunate reality of the situation is that over a million people did die as a result.

The attack was apposed by the Organization of American States of which the US was a part. The action was also "deeply deplored" by the United Nations based on its 1970 injunction that stated that no state or group of states has the right to intervene indirectly or directly for any reason whatever, in the internal or external affairs of another state. The United Nations Security Council voted 11-1 against the attack with the only positive vote coming from the United States. Grenada was seen by many as a make-up war to appease the US citizens that were outraged by a truck bomb attack that killed 241 US marines in Beirut, Lebanon. The United States chose to ignore the recommendations of the organizations that it belonged to, in order to relieve its aggression on a country

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