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what are you guys even talking about anyway?

Unilateralism has had a long history in the United States. In his famous and influential Farewell Address, George Washington warned that the United States should “steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world”. Many years later, this approach was labeled (by its opponents) as “isolationism”, but some historians of U.S. diplomacy have long argued that “isolationism” is a misnomer, and that U.S. foreign policy, beginning with Washington, has traditionally been driven by unilateralism. Recent works that have made this argument include Walter A. McDougall’s Promised Land, Crusader State (1997) and John Lewis Gaddis’s Surprise, Security, and the American Experience (2004).

Debates about unilateralism recently came to the forefront with the Iraq War. While over 30 countries have supported the U.S. policy, some previous American allies, such as France, Germany and Turkey, are not participating. Many opponents of the war have argued that the United States is “going it alone” in Iraq without the support of multilateral institutions–in this case NATO and the United Nations, which America has supported since the end of World War II.

Advocates of U.S. unilateralism argue that other countries should not have “veto power” over matters of U.S. national security. Presidential Candidate John Kerry received heavy political heat after saying, during a presidential debate, that American national security actions must pass a “global test”. This was interpreted by Kerry opponents as a proposal to submit U.S. foreign policy to approval by other countries. Proponents of U.S. unilateralism generally believe that a multilateral institution, such as the United Nations, is morally suspect because, they argue, it treats non-democratic, and even despotic, regimes as being as legitimate as democratic countries. Proponents also point out that the unilateralist policy of having the United States control post World War Two Japan was a success than having mulilateral policies such as those used in post war Germany. Japan only took 5 years before adopting their constitution while Germany was divided into West Germany and East Germany for 45 years and being controlled by the United States, France, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union before being reunited.

Critics of American unilateralism point to the ethical implications of engaging in armed conflicts that may inevitably draw in combatants from other nations, as well as the undermining of the international ability to protect small nations from aggressors. Unilateralism, it is argued, can be considered nothing more than a positively-sold version of the very actions that would earn other states the title of aggressor or rogue nation. Opponents of unilateralism say it rejects the essential interwoven nature of modern global politics and perhaps underestimates the extent to which a conflict in one country can affect civilians in others.

Proponents of multilateralism argue that it would provide a country with greater resources, both militarily and economically, and would help in defraying the cost of military action. However, with divided responsibility inevitably comes divided authority, and thus (in theory at least) slower military reaction times and the demand that troops follow commanders from other nations. Multilateralists argue that co-operations strengthens the bonds between nations and peoples, paints the U.S. in a more responsible and respected light, and reduces the risk of wildfire conflicts by increasing the size and unity of the enemy such a rogue nation would face.”

That came from wikidpedia.

‘Many opponents of the war have argued that the United States is “going it alone” in Iraq without the support of multilateral institutions–in this case NATO and the United Nations, which America has supported since the end of World War II.’

As if an encylopedia couldnt be any more correct. Thanks Nathan.

That’s not conservative propaganda, those are facts. Just because I point out your “unilateral” comment is liberal propaganda does not automatically make my comment conservative propaganda.

To be honest, if you’ve got a point to make you have to be much more succinct, and make better use of paragraphs.