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A 10 page paper discussing the worsening perception of the rest of the world of the legitimacy of democracy in the United States. Domestic legalities of the President's actions have little bearing on how subsequent action was seen by the rest of the world, however. US stature has eroded in the eyes of the rest of the world over the past several years. The US government must care about how the rest of the world perceives the United States, and take steps to improve relations with those entities with which we do not naturally share a common ground and common worldview. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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10 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSgovtDemoLegit.rtf
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When terrorists attacked on September 11, 2001, the entire country gasped and then virtually mobilized as the initial shock began to wear off. The national reaction
to that attack bore many similarities to the nations reaction to the attack 60 years before at Pearl Harbor. However, President George W.
Bush announced shortly after 9/11 that US troops would be entering Afghanistan. Later he announced that US troops also would be entering Iraq, despite the protests of a significant
- though minority - number of protesters across the country. What gave him the right to act in this manner? Is this a signal that the US operates
as an oligarchy? No. Rather, it is a signal that the US operates as a well-functioning democracy. The President was acting according to the premises of the
US Constitution and within his bounds of office. Domestic legalities of the Presidents actions have little bearing on how subsequent action was seen
by the rest of the world, however. US stature has eroded in the eyes of the rest of the world over the past several years. Pew Global Attitudes Project
Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright chairs the Pew Centers ongoing series of worldwide public opinion surveys. Originally surveying "more
than 38,000 people in 44 countries" (Pew Global Attitudes Project, n.d.), the project has been expanded to the point that it now surveys nearly 75,000 people in 49 countries plus
the Palestinian Authority. The original purpose of the project was to (1) "gauge attitudes in every region toward globalization" (Pew Global Attitudes Project,
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