Critiquing a Colleague

I love the argument made by my colleague, U.S Government for Dummies, about the ‘big brother’ type actions of our nation. In his blog titled “Big Brother?” he does a really good job of making his audience aware of the large numbers of money, personnel, and stations being used in ever country but our own. He does a great job of articulation these numbers without making it seem like he is spouting out a series of meaningless statistics.  

I disagree with the idea that the U.S. is trying to be big brother in every country that it has bases and embassies in because I do believe that some of the bases and embassies are truly there for the protection of our people or to cooperate with those other countries. But I also do think that some of our bases are strictly there for the purpose of being ‘big brother’, which is really sad.

It seems as though the implicit point in this blog is that we should no longer have bases and embassies in foreign places but, I think that such actions would end up to be more detrimental than it’s worth. But yes, if we were to stop spending so much money and energy overseas and focus them more towards home we would most definitely be a better and more prosperous country.

Overall a wonderfully written piece.