No, the US is not a good force in the world. They attack and spy on foreign countries while people in their own country are being killed. Maybe, um...ban immigrants from terrorist countries? Just a thought. Or stop screwing around in other countries. Protect your own citizens first!!!

I would argue the United States has long since ceased to be a force for good in the world. From a succession of poorly thought out wars to the removal of legitimate democratically elected leaders, U.S foreign policy seems to be more about economic profit that global stability.

One of the inevitable bi-products of being the world leader in the free market is that America has to prop up the capitalist system by ensuring war is enduring. From the oil wars in the gulf to the destruction of socialist movements in South America, the U.S has waged a war of attrition on those who oppose it's ideology.

What I think is really sad is that the average American still thinks the United States stands for democracy, freedom and equality. A study by the think tank Ipsos Mori conducted in 2011 found that the United States topped the list of 'threats to global peace', ahead of Al Qaida, Iran, North Korea and the Taliban. The study was the largest of it's kind and sampled demographics from over 80 countries in Europe and worldwide.

The U.S may have done good in the past, specifically the world wars, but I would argue that the bad now outweighs the good. The only country to have ever caused mass-civilian death through the use of Nuclear Weapons, the country with the largest military spending globally, the country which exports more weapons to the rest of the world than the next 5 combined.

Surely, now is the time to recognise the shift in opinion away from the US being a force for good. Recognition is the first step toward change. Please vote against the motion.

There's no such thing as either the United States being a force for good or bad; there's just reality's format, and as such its life forms having failed to organise so that no life form ever has to either form a nation, and then to ask if that nation is either a force for good or bad.