The Best Ideology for Our Government

Too many presidents and leaders of the U.S. either called for the use of military force or an overly emphasized sense of moralism during their terms. I believed the best ideology for the U.S. government was political realism where morality does exist, but was not enough to hinder U.S.’s power and military forces were used only in times of absolute need. Why did the U.S. have to involve itself in the Vietnam War? There was nothing worth gaining out of the war and the U.S. already lost so many men over World War II and World War I (poor soldiers). Participation in the Vietnam War was one of the most lamentable actions. There was no good reason to be involved. The Vietnam War served as one of my examples of the useless ways the U.S. used military force. Rather, Containment would have been better and more practical where only military defenses would be placed in “communist threatened” countries. This, I knew, would definitely not cause a war since the Soviet Union was too tired from previous wars to erupt yet another war.
President Bush awarded me the Medal of Freedom in 1989. How ecstatic I was to receive the award, the nation’s highest civilian honor! But this could not prevent me from becoming biased in favor of presidents. I still saw flaws in the ways of U.S. presidents and I had to express them. I felt it was necessary for the U.S. governments to "withdraw from its public advocacy of democracy and human rights". The U.S. was already busy preventing the spread of communism, but trying to spread its own policies was, to me, hypocritical and a waste of time and effort. Seriously, the government could have taken much more practical steps that may possibly even have strengthened the relationship between the Soviet Union and the U.S. while preventing the spread of communism.