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03/17/2008
 

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Foreign policy and "The war on Terrorism", what an interesting choice of words, not a War in the conventional sense, but a war just the same. What should be done now? How should we proceed after the war in Iraq? The Iraqi governing council must learn to govern. The Iraqi people must do the building. Nothing we do for them will be half as important as the things they do for themselves. It will not be easy. Democracy in the United States isn’t easy. But it is worth the effort. With our help the Iraq people may get the chance to see this. But this does not mean a never ending occupation of Iraq. Nor should it mean permanent bases in Iraq. Our force withdrawal should begin next year to be complete within 1 year. At that time we should not have any troops inside Iraq.

This is the beginning of a foreign policy shift away from the shoot first policy and toward a more diplomatic stand. Our role as the world bully, like some megalomaniac lone ranger going it alone, must stop. The cold war is over and the entire battle situation has evolved. Wars are no longer fought as they were in World War Two and unless we plan on fighting World War Three in the same manner we need to change how we plan on preparing and fighting the battles of the future. We can’t hold onto the past while trying to move towards the future. The reasons for posting our troops across the world have changed greatly over the last two decades. Security and stability should start at home. We should begin drawing down our troops worldwide. Re-equipping them and changing the mission to protecting the homeland. We do not need to be isolationist to be secure, but we should have our troops close at hand. We can use our diplomatic corps in coordination with a revitalized CIA. These should have always been our first line of defense. Good intelligence could have avoided this costly war in Iraq. An administration that would listen to this good intelligence would be a bonus.
We must increase our cooperation with the United Nations and rejoin the world community instead going it alone. The problems we face from security, climate change to the increasing militancy of the radical elements needs to be addressed but not alone.


 

 

I will work for:
 
1) Reduce troop levels in Iraq, with the goal of a complete withdrawal within one year.
2) Reduce troop levels throughout the world. 
3) Re-equip our military.
4) Expand our diplomatic efforts combined with a top down shake up of the CIA so that all of our intelligence services interact at a basic level.
5) Re-establish ourselves as a moral compass with our economic, political and social networks through-out the world.