November 07, 2009

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Fast Facts

For fiscal year 2005, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has an estimated budget of nearly $402 billion.
By committing the United States to NATO and thus to a formal and long-lasting entangling military alliance in peacetime, the North Atlantic Treaty of April 1949 marked, as Lawrence Kaplan put it, a "radical transformation in American foreign policy."
Since the United Nations was founded in 1945 at the end of World War II, the UN has grown from its original 51 members into an organization of 191 nations.

U.S. Foreign Relations

The United States's dealings and contacts with, and the American people's attitudes and policies toward, any foreign country are conditioned by the historical and cultural outlooks of the two countries. Any discussion of foreign affairs must start with the assumption that we are analyzing two societies of different traditions as well as two entities embodying distinct sets of interests, be they military, security, or trade.

U.S. Foreign Relations Overview

Many Arab and Muslim people have long harbored great hatred and resentment for the United States. A major cause of that hatred is American involvement in the Arab-Israeli conflict. The majority of Arabs believe that America's support for Israel---which includes financial and military aid---is hypocritical and harmful to Arabs. They…>> (read more)