Chapter 8 Questions

1. What gave rise to the growth of militant, fundamentalist Islam in

Indonesia?
2. Barack Obama acknowledges history repeating itself with the Evil
Empire, Axis of Evil, the Monroe Doctrine and the Bush Doctrine. What
spurred this realization and why is it significant?
3. What were Obamas reasons for being pro-war and anti-war at the
same time?
4. Barack Obama compares insurgents to gang members in Chicago.
What is the comparison and why is it relevant?
5. Barack Obama states, Is cheap oil worth the costsin blood and
treasureof war? What is he referring to and why is it relevant?
6. Barack Obama talks about President Kennedys inaugural address.
What does he say still exists in the world and how does his role fit into
the solution?
Chapter 8 Answers
1. Technology and most Indonesians knowing of Osama Bin Laden than
they did of George W. Bush.
2. The American foreign policy spurred the realization of Obama
acknowledge of history repeating itself. The American foreign policy
is significant because it has been farsighted, simultaneously serving
our national interests, our ideals, and the interests of other nations.
However; at other times American policies have been misguided,
based on false assumptions that ignore the legitimate aspirations of
other peoples, undermine our own credibility, and make for a more
dangerous world.
3. Obama reasons for being pro-war were those on the right who
argued that only a unilateral foreign policy and an immediate
invasion of the Soviet Union could disable the emerging communist
threat. Obama reasons for being anti-war was he did not support
dumb wars, rash wars, wars based not on reason but on passion,
not on principle but on politics.

4. The comparison that gang members in Chicago is as violent as the

insurgent leaders. It is relevant because insurgent leaders were
arrested more each day but like street gangs back in Chicago, for
every insurgent they arrested, there seemed to be two ready to take
his place.
5. Obama is referring to our military. Will our military intervention in a
particular ethnic dispute lead to a permanent political settlement or
an indefinite commitment of U.S. forces? Can our dispute with a
country be settled diplomatically or through a coordinated series of
sanctions?
6. He says To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe
struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best
efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is
required not because of others but because it is right. It fits into
the solution because they will have to go beyond a more prudent
use of military force. We will have to align our polices to help reduce
the spheres of insecurity, poverty, and violence around the world,
and give more people a stake in the global order that has served us
so well.