Part One:
A bureaucracy is "a body of non-elective government officials" and/or "an administrative policy-making group". Historically, bureaucracy referred to government administration managed by departments staffed with nonelected officials. In modern parlance, bureaucracy refers to the administrative system governing any large institution (Wikipedia, July 2014).
Bureaucrats put government policy into practice, and therefore the federal bureaucracy has a large impact on policymaking. In order to get their policies passed, the president and Congress must work with the bureaucracy (Sparknotes, 2014).
The government appears rather large in term of bureaucracy but the government is composed of numerous departments and each one is large. Each department performs a valuable service to the public. For example, the Environmental Protection Agency develops and enforces environmental regulations, the Health & Human Services protect the health of all Americans and provide essential human services, and the Dept. of Agriculture makes sure that our food meets certain minimum standards.
I don't think the federal government is too powerful. The citizens are just too uninvolved towards what the government is doing because we are too distracted either by TV shows or celebrities. We wouldn't have so many problems if the citizens would pay attention to what the government is doing, vote, and demand responsibility from the government.

Part Two:
The main objective of foreign policy is to use talking, meeting, and making agreements to solve international problems. Following the September 2011 attack, President George W. Bush rallied the nation to fight back against the terrorists responsible. The United States successfully led a coalition force in an invasion of Afghanistan, where the governing Taliban regime had sheltered and aided the core leadership of al Qaeda, including