Fixing the Economy around the World!

I read an article in the New York Times called, Obama Will Face a Defiant World on Foreign Visit. This article talks about how Obama will be making his first trip over seas since becoming President for the Group of 20 summit meeting of industrial and emerging market nations plus the European Union. This article goes on to talk about that even though he is "immensely popular" around the World he, "will confront resentment over American-style capitalism and resistance to his economic prescriptions when he lands in London." Then later on in the week he will meet with the military alliance but will not bring up the matter of adding more troops into Afghanistan because NATO is against it.
He is also wanting to meet with the other leaders, an example would be Iran's leaders to get on good terms with them. However this hasn't been going very well, they are very angry and only have angry words to speak. He will also be meeting with two other leaders, Russia's and China's. These leaders are not too happy with us either because they feel that U.S. is trying to "dominate global affairs."
Another thing that Obama will more than likely not talk about during these meetings are stimulus spending to bolster the economies. However if they would do this administration officials say that it would prompt a global economy recovery. Instead world leaders will be looking to restore global growth. Our ability to give any kind of spending advice is over for now because of the way bush threw around his weight and gave orders and also because we're in a financial crisis ourselves. America is a model to the rest of the world as to what not to do with your money. Things are looking up however because many feel that Obama is turning things around for us and many Europeans see him as "an embodiment of American ideals"
He will be going to Prague to help them set up a way to let the public know about street closings. NATO will be setting up an “international resistance camp” in France to rally against the war to try to get Obama to pull the troops out of Afghanistan.
The World criticizes Obama but still wants to hear of his miracle plans to get the World out of this mess. He is showing confidence in his stimulus plan working but knows that it will take time. The ideal is to fix the American economy but to not shut out the rest of the World to the resolution because we need all economies fixed for them all to work properly. He will be trying to let the other Countries know that we're not just trying to save ourselves however they might not be willing to listen to his ideas about getting out of the crisis because America doesn't have a good reputation with money anymore. Even though they may not want to listen at first we're still trying to lead by example and get us and everyone else out of this mess.
I think that Obama is being smart and not trying to push his ideas and get commitments on the stimulus plan from other Countries the first time he meets with them. They are fed up with us and the last thing we need to do is throw our ideas around and tell them that it's the only way to save everything and they'd better do it. That would make sure that they wouldn't do it.

Bill Moyers Journal Part II

I watched the second Bill Moyers Journal, Andrew J. Bacevich: Part II, for this post. Part II went on talking about the war, our problems with the (now old), president and why we wanted a new one.
The video started out saying that we weren't able to plan for the war in Iraq. He says that no one in Washington knew what they were doing.
Operation Dessert Storm was perceived to be a great success and a great victory. It started a new way of thinking. A new American way of war, we were able to have a false spectrum dominance-we felt we were dominant and we advertised it in the 90's but it was false. This set everything up for how Bush would handle the attack on 9/11. Everyone thought that our armies would be able to have a global war and be able to transform the middle east.
We think our expensive technologies/weapons will be able to dominate all. Well this doesn't seem to be true. Our enemies our getting us with homemade road bombs that only cost the price of a pizza to make. So it seems that all the money we're spending is worthless. The highjackers that killed 3,000 Americans didn't succeed because they had technology or the extra benefits we have, we just stupidly let down our guard and they got in.
We've learned from this experience that preventative war doesn't work so we should abandon Bush's "doctrine of preventative war," and throw it out. We only need to use the "Seize Force" approach of war as a last resort.
Instead of starting a Global War because of 9/11 we needed to organize a mission to do away woth the terrorists behind it.
When we look back at this war like we do with the Vietnam war we need to ask ourselves if it was worth it. How much money did we lose, what could it have went to instead. Questions that make us realize that we never need to do this again.