The International Image of the United States of America (Essay Sample)

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The International Image of the United States of America
I concur with the notion that the international image of the United States of America has been negatively affected by numerous wars because of a number of reasons as exemplified below:
First and foremost, being the superpower, America has been bestowed with the responsibility of maintaining peace and stability across the globe but they have since used this platform to hunt down and execute frenzied assassinations and bludgeoning everyone into surrendering to their decree regardless of the consequences and repercussions that come with it. On most occasions, many innocent lives are lost in the process.
America has gone into the books of record as being the only nation to have used nuclear weapons in warfare and that was at the close of World War II. This was deployed over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing countless number of innocent lives and plunging the nation into deep economic disparities (Gleick 11). This was a crude act of grave injustice to humanity and an uncouth way to bring a nation into submission. The consequences of these noxious nuclear attacks are being felt by the Japanese to date. America has also in the recent past been mired in a series of wars in Libya and Middle Eastern countries so as to bring them down to their submission and take control of their oil and other precious resources. Such incidences of wars have dented the image of America (Gleick 17).
The American government is spending over one trillion dollars annually on weapons of mass destruction, mercenaries, nukes and torture chambers and yet there are other issues of uttermost importance to the nation that needs to be addressed like the war on poverty eradication, job creation and health care. This is a case of mispl...