President Obama met with the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan a few days ago to renew their agreement to unite against terrorist groups such as the Taliban and Al Queda. This was a tense meeting because all sides are starting to feel the pressure of war, loss of money and sparseness resources. Even with all the personal problems the US is facing right now, President Obama knew that he couldn't forget about the rest of the world, and he met with both political leaders for an entire day to discuss military and non-military tactics to stop terrorist groups.
Why is this relevant? Because it shows us (AS students) that allies are allies for better or for worse. As much as President Obama would like to focus on the economy and border control, but he knows that foreign relations must be kept up to really get anything done outside of the country. We, as AS students must learn this for our simulation tomorrow. No matter what country we represent, we must keep relations with our allies. In times of crisis, no one can do it themselves. In our simulation, I suspect this will be the same.
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Keeping relations with our allies is something very obvious, but sometimes falls behind. As seen with our simulation when Russia forgetting it's promise to Israel when they realized that it wasn't in their best interest to help mobilize troops near Iran.I am not sure if the drive for countries to only care about themselves will ever over come their word
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