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What is a US foreign policy which is strongly affected by both domestic and international concerns?

1)Though often separated into distinct spheres, international and domestic politics interact to produce policy outcomes that are not, strictly speaking, always optimal. A political system exists in domestic and international arenas with inputs and outputs flowing from and to each and effecting policy accordingly. Choose a specific American foreign policy and discuss how that policy is shaped by both domestic political concerns and international politics. Be sure to discuss the relevant structures and processes involved.

Public Comments

1. It would have to be the invasion of Iraq because we had to do it all on credit blowing out the deficit and we pissed off most of the world.
2. transportaion of dem mighty finee marshmelllows from north prussia
3. sorry, your teacher wants you to answer this question, not someone in here. Nice try, lol.
4. Vulnerable, depending on who`s calling the shots.
5. We sacrifice our domestic freedoms on occasion to appease our supposed allies. For instance, travel. It would have been far easier after the 9/11 tragedy and the shoe bomber attempt to just be more careful searching Muslim passengers or people with Saudi passports, but we didn't want to offend the Saudis or other Muslims and instead decided to make travel horrible and unpleasant for everyone. This is silly because the only hijacking of American planes over the past 30 years have been committed by one group - Muslim men, 90% of them with Saudi passports. So this is an example of where we let political correctness and appeasement of an ally take precedence over the people and our rights as US citizens. There are many, many more - we turn a blind eye to China's labor abuses and human rights issues because we buy lots of cheap Chinese crap. We don't worry about Myanmar or Sudan because they aren't trading partners of ours. We don't put up a real wall between Mexico and the US because we want the Mexican government to continue to be friendly to our imports. Etc. Etc.
6. The influence of AI PAC could not continue without the support of the religious right.
7. I know I know I know! White republicans, mainly in Miami, import cocaine from South American countries stimulating those Latin economies. White republicans then ship this product to ghetto minority neighborhoods all across America. The income from this goes to fill republican political coffers. The income made by low level ghetto drug dealers goes toward neighborhood improvement (a stolen BMW in every garage) and ACORN. This is US foreign policy, approved by all, since Obama, as a Chicago activist, never even bitched about the price of crack-cocaine in the hood.