The question regarding what America stands for has been there as long as the continent has experienced flaws in its foreign policy. To answer it, some people have responded that the country stands for its independence. Still, some have presented the Moneyball card as their answer. Others, however, answer it by claiming that America is indispensable and stands for its indispensability. This paper intends to answer the question by arguing that America stands for its indispensability.
That the United States has always been a superpower since the end of the Second World War is not debatable. What is questionable is what it has done to prove what is expected of such a position, and indeed it has done much. Much of the wars that have taken place across the world, from minor civil strife, nation vs. nation wars, and terrorism-related wars have all had the hallmarks of the United States.
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It is important to note that the role of the United States in such wars has been to promote democracy, the rule of law and human rights as stipulated in its constitution, and as established within the principles upon which it rests. Without the United States, the countries so far affected by such wars could be in ruins, lives of their citizens shattered, and the rule of law, human rights, and democracy sent into oblivion.
There are reasons why the United States becomes indispensable in such matters. Foremost, It has the most developed military infrastructure and economy in the world. By extension, this means that in matters war, it has a comparative advantage if not leverage. The wars that have been fought in countries where democracy has been threatened such as Libya have only been successful due to the extensive military power and economic possessed by the United States. In the absence of them, the weakening of democracy in such countries could have been aggravated further, and ramifications of the deterioration such as human rights abuse escalated. It has been the argument of some that the involvement of America in the affairs of other states is not warranted. While this argument sounds light in the interpretation of others, what the proponents of this school of thought fail to factor into consideration is the fact that the countries which have experienced American involvement in their affairs, have either lacked the means to establish internal order, or asked for the United States intervention from its opposition leaders. The indispensability of America in cases such as these rests on the premise of promoting democracy.
The United States Constitution and the principles associated with it make clear the kind of attachment the country has with democracy from its colonial period to its current state. One of the phrases within the American constitution is that the founding of the American republic was pegged on revolution. There are many countries, such as the despotic and autocratic countries in the Middle East and Arabic countries, which long for the occurrence of revolution within their political systems but have not yet attained it. Reasons for this state of affairs are numerous. Foremost, powerful countries surrounding them, with sufficient military and economic strength capable of establishing order within them, are either reluctant, unwilling or both. China and Japan, for example, have assumed a blank face over what is going on inside their troubled neighboring nations such as North Korea. It takes the intervention of the United States to establish order in such troubled countries. Failure to which, not only will the principles and values America stands for be trashed, but even its economy which primarily relies on the global middle class will be ruined. Ultimately, despite the competing ideas about what America stands for, that of indispensability stands out among the rest.
