Dean Outlines Foreign Policy

[Fleshdancer]

I fowarded this article to Americans for Jobs, Healthcare and Progressive Values.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62184-2003Dec13.html?referrer=emailarticlepg


Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean said he would offer a package deal to North Korea to give up its nuclear weapon programs and embraced an unofficial peace plan that establishes the borders of a Palestinian state -- breaking dramatically with the approaches of the Bush administration.

Dean, who has risen to the top of the Democratic field in part because of his early and vehement opposition to the war in Iraq, also said he favors immediate elections in Iraq to replace the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council, which he said is viewed by the average Iraqi as "simply a council of American-chosen puppets." Dean further said he would end funding for the deployment of a missile defense system, a centerpiece of Bush's presidential campaign four years ago.

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Its's a long article, but worth the read.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. The long and short of it

This is the return to the Trumman Doctrine...

Oh and Dean also realized that the Israelis and the palestinians are
movimg towards a solution of their own, whether we like it or not

[Cha]

2. Thank you, Gloria!

<snip>
"Nuance matters in foreign policy," Dean said. "Not only does this administration have a tin ear and wants to push through whatever they want to do without regard to people's feelings or thoughts, I think nuance escapes this administration."

"In addition to Daalder, campaign aides said Dean's core foreign policy team includes former national security adviser Anthony Lake; retired general Joseph Hoare, a former chief of Central Command; retired General Merrill A. "Tony" McPeak, former chief of staff for the Air Force; two former assistant secretaries of defense, Ashton Carter and Frank Cramer; former assistant secretary of state Susan Rice; and political theorist Benjamin R. Barber. Danny E. Sebright, a former Defense Department civil servant who works for the consulting firm headed by Clinton Defense secretary William Cohen, is Dean's foreign policy coordinator."

"Lake, President Bill Clinton's first national security adviser, said he has signed on as a key Dean adviser precisely because Dean has both core beliefs -- such as engagement, multilateralism when necessary and use of force when appropriate -- and a willingness to make decisions according to the facts at the moment. "One of the attractive things about him -- though it is also slightly worrisome -- is that it is very hard to characterize him," Lake said. "A more doctrinaire approach leads to error." <snip>

[slinkerwink]

3. wow, amazing how all those people are on dean's staff!

[Cha]

4. I know! I found that paragraph

Fascinating! :)