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CMV: At this moment in time, the United States creates more problems than it solves both domestically and internationally.

The United States has throughout its short history both been hero and antagonist. Historically, the country has accomplished many great things both domestically and internationally. Things like the Foreign Corrupt Practices act have had a net positive impact in the way business is done. Before, countries like France allowed bribes to be written off as business expenses. The Marshall Plan helped rebuild a devastated Europe after WWII (while we helped tip the scales on the Germans, the Russians really won the European theater). We've helped sparked economic reforms (albeit with some negative consequences) that have generally made the world overall better off. The US position as world super power has also led to the lowest level of violence worldwide, probably in history. The US is also a huge innovator in technology and industry.

However, when I start to analyze what's going on today, something seems to have changed. Not that we didn't create issues like this in the past or do messed up things, it just seems like now we make no correct decisions. The gravity of greed, corruption, ignorance, and/or a religious like attachment to ideology seems to either cause the US to make poor decisions or fail to fix past bad decisions.

It's is by no means comprehensive, but here are a few examples of what I mean:

* Supported the Salvadoran military government during the civil war leading to a mass exodus into the United States. This mass exodus lead to the creation of the street gang MS-13 who caused a lot of problems here. We then deported many back to El Salvador where they now basically terrorize all of Central America (I was a teenager when they were terrorizing my area in the US).

* Specific drug policies and paramilitary action in South and Central 
America that gave rise to the cartels in Mexico, including Los Zetas who were originally Mexican special forces and likely had received some US training.

* Supporting the Taliban before we didn't. The DEA even commended them for eradicating all the poppy in the area. Probably never even bothered asking how they did that.

* Not knowing the difference between a Sunni Muslim and a Shi'ite Muslim before going into a war in a country with a longstanding conflict between them.

* Weaponizing computer code in the form of Stuxnet and Flame basically giving coders a framework for creating more cyberweapons of this sophistication.

* Failing to support environmental regulations including the Kyoto protocols. Now, it's basically too late.

* Allowing massive asset bubbles to be created and continually stripping away financial regulation despite crashes. We have a massive student debt bubble right now. When it pops, it will ripple through the world economy just like the housing crash.

* Indiscriminate drone attacks that create huge collateral damage and fresh new recruits for terrorist organizations.

* Helping militarize ISIS by disbanding the Iraqi military (ISIS was founded in 1999 by a Jordanian, but debaathification and the disbandment of the military helped it grow significantly in strength and sophistication).

* Supporting the Saudis despite their failure (and potential complicity) in reigning in the rich Wahhabis funding terrorist movements.

* Supporting Israel while they indiscriminately kill Palestinians whom they significantly overpower in the region.

* Creating patent and intellectual property rights laws that stifle innovation. Micky Mouse is probably the reason why the Great Gatsby is still not in the public domain.

Again, I could keep going on and on. Many of these issues are complex, but many are not and we just make horrible decisions.

EDIT:  Thanks everyone for the interesting discussion.  I think maybe this was a little too broad for a full change of view.  I awarded some deltas to people that made me look at things in different way even if it didn't completely change my mind on some of these issues.
gpt
>Many of these issues are complex, but many are not and we just make horrible decisions.

I think this is the crux of the issue you are missing.

First, you are using the lens of hindsight.  How do you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that these outcomes are WORSE than the outcomes that would have happened without US intervention.

Second, the United States intervenes in bad situations.  In reality there aren't any existing "good" outcomes, and we often must choose the lesser of two evils to try and produce an outcome that will produce the most good.

Many of your examples are the equivalent of police showing up to and breaking up a gang shootout, and then blaming the police both for gang members dying in the altercation and the gangs continuing to get in future shootouts

If anything was 100% clear cut, you wouldn't hear about it, (you don't).  Any decision a government makes is going to have negative externalities because every decision is a compromise of some sort.