It is great that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad released the British navy prisoners. This has quickly dispelled the conspiracy theories of democrats and liberals who advertised that President Bush set this up to instigate a war with the entire middle east.
However, Americans need to find a way to put the world power in the hands of a world organization. Americans have to believe in that system just like the other 120 countries currently have to. The U.S. government (Democrat or Republican) cannot be trusted to manage foreign policy and to police the middle east of terrorist and nuclear threats. N.Korea's or Iran's development of nuclear power and uranium enrichment is as much their defensive right as anyone else in the world. This link provides a good history of failed US relations with Iran : http://www.msnbc.com/modules/interactive.aspx?type=ss&launch=16491417,3032507&pg=11
Countries want to build modern defense systems similar to the US. They can feel dehumanized, disadvantaged, and insecure without such protection. Each region that chooses nuclear defenses is not a direct threat to the US or civilization. Nuclear weapons are a terrible offensive. Irresponsible use of such can only affect minute fractions of the six billion person world population and will result in an immediate response and annihilation of the aggressor from the world. The response will have and an effect and justification paralleled to the WWII reaction to the Japanese after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It is not the right of the US to prevent other countries defense development. Only the UN Security Council should make the decision to pursue security issues. The propaganda from the US that these sanctions and tactics aren't fast or effective enough are just fear-based. Each time the US overrides the UN, the US dilutes the UN power and makes an absolute mess of foreign relations and humanity. The US military is only effective at responding to posthumanous events with its clumsy, raw power and should be directed by a world power when acting outside of the US. The US mass military is not trained for humanitarian and security issues and should stop being used for such missions. In fact when the US polices the world, it acts alone and increases the anti-sentiment for the US and justifies retaliation for generations to come. US responses are too fear-based and self-serving to be allowed to act alone. The US has created dozens of examples (USSR, China, Iran, Iraq, Nicaragua, Cuba) where they have acted irresponsibly and covertly against treaties, agreements, and other governments. Other countries should not have to 'trust' the US to responsibly maintain the world's nuclear weapons. 'Nuclear' is just a distraction that is so easy to generate fear around. There are many other types of laser, conventional, and chemical weapons that cause greater damage and insecurity to the US and civilization (China's anti-satellite missiles for example). The illogic in preventing certain others from developing and obtaining nuclear weapons causes more dissent and damage than to actually allow the equal opportunity for proliferation. Only a world organization can diffuse the need for all developed nations to have a strong defense and the US is standing in the way. It is highly artificial that the US holds the role of superpower. The US is not the largest (300M people), wealthiest country (2nd largest debt), the most educated country (India graduates 10M college students a year), or the most ethical and tolerant (Christianity vs. Buddhism?). This country is 'afraid' that all the other countries in a world organization would not help to defend the US and even turn against the US for causing a long history of oppression and damage throughout the world. According to Dr. Martin Luther King, the only thing to fear is fear itself. We must eliminate the fear and realize that civilized nations will act civilly if given an equal opportunity and consequences.
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I have performed multi-discipline engineering on space launch vehicles, satellite command and control software, electronic medical records, and large data center operations.
I am seeking additional opportunities to deliver solutions internationally
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I have delivered management and technology consulting solutions for Deloitte, BearingPoint, Department of the Interior, TRICARE Military Health System, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), Raytheon, Lockheed, Northrop, and Boeing on various projects in manufacturing, software development, systems engineering, testing, and ITIL management.
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