What Is the American Interest?

What is the American Interest?

We are here to look at American foreign policy and how it supported our national interest. Will you agree or disagree with the policies that were made or will you disagree with them? I will look at three conflicts: World War II, The Vietnam War, and The Cold War.

World War II was a worldwide military conflict; the amalgamation of two separate conflicts, one beginning in Asia in 1937 as the Second Sino-Japanese War, and the other beginning in Europe in 1939 with the invasion of Poland. What was America’s interest in this war in the beginning? (Wikipedia)

Wall Street and the American Banks have always had a financial in all of American wars as far back as 1861 when the first investment banks concentrated on railroad securities and government bonds. As the years past the politics and the financial banks have been tide together.

Jay Cook, business promoter, and Brother Henry, editor of the leading Republican Administration to over the investment-banking house, in 1861 poured into Senator Salmon P. Chase political campaign to have Chase appointed Secretary of the Treasury. With this appointment Sensatory Chase granted the Cooke’s set up as an investment banker in underwriting the entire federal debt. “Cooke and Chase managed a virtual Republican monopoly in Congress during the war to transform the American commercial banking from free market to a National Banking System centralized by the federal government under Wall Street control.”(Rothbard) This was the beginning of the financial interest in war.

During most of the 1920s, the United States enjoyed a period of unbalanced prosperity as farm profits fell while industrial profits grew. A rise in debt and an inflated stock market culminated in the 1929 crash that triggered the Great Depression. WWII was no different, even thought the US wanted to stay neutral in this war, finically we could not stay out. The 1930 the Rockefellers pushed hard for war against Japan, which...