It's the same as the Neo-Con plan:
Bipartisan panel urges next US president to expand global influence and good will
"Next president urged to fix global image; Bipartisan report condemns nation's 'exporting of fear'" by Bryan Bender/Boston Globe November 7, 2007
WASHINGTON - The next US president must expand American involvement in the United Nations and other international bodies and dramatically increase foreign aid - especially among Muslim countries - to reverse the steep decline in American influence and enhance national security, a bipartisan group of politicians, business executives, and academics said in a report yesterday.
The report, titled "A Smarter and Safer America," also condemned what it called the American "exporting of fear" since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and criticized the use of "hard power," military might, as the main component of US foreign policy instead of the "soft power" of positive US influences.
But the authors - including Richard Armitage, former deputy secretary of state under President Bush, retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, and Harvard professor Joseph S. Nye Jr. - said their recommendations, issued one year ahead of Election Day, is a foreign policy blueprint for Democratic and Republican presidential hopefuls.
We already got one! AIPAC/Clean Break/PNAC
"America may be less regarded today than at any time in its history, but it is not too late to reverse these trends, even in the Arab and Muslim World," reads the report, created with assistance from hundreds of specialists around the world.
To reach that goal "will require a strategy that strikes a new balance between the use of hard and soft power" to create "a smarter approach to the main challenges facing the United States and the global community," the report says.
Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill said they hoped the report would spark a national debate about America's changing global role.
What garbage! Ya gonna de-fund Israel and the Empire?
Apologize to all the Muslims you've slaughtered?
Then I don't wanna hear it!
...The widely unpopular Iraq war is just one reason the United States' image abroad has become severely tarnished in recent years, according to the report. Some nations resent America's role as the sole global superpower, while others criticize it for not sharing the economic benefits of a trade globalization system it engineered.
America's decisions to bypass several key international agreements and treaties in recent years are a factor, along with what the report called a "simplistic" response to the Sept. 11 attacks - an us-or-them mentality that the report said led to secret detentions, warrantless electronic surveillance, and interrogation techniques some consider tantamount to torture.
S0me consider it tantamount to, but not, and some just consider it what it really is -- barbaric, inhumane torture!
The report said Cold War-era examples of America's technical superiority and world leadership... have been replaced by images of its stumbling response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster and its inability to restore basic services in Iraq.
As well as mass-murderer and torturer!
The United States needs a new global strategy, much as it did at the start of the Cold War in the early 1950s, according to the report.
So what, let the CIA run amok for the next 25 years? No thanks!
The "smart power" strategy outlined in the report yesterday includes US participation in international treaties and alliances, emphasizing global development and health, and encouraging international investment in new energy technologies.
The United States must recommit itself to a "new mutlilateralism," working with other countries to strengthen international institutions such as the United Nations, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization.
GLOBALISTS!!!!!
In addition, the United States should dramatically increase foreign aid and make global development a foreign policy priority, according to the report. Though the total amount of US foreign aid is larger than that from some other developed countries, it is a much smaller percentage of its gross domestic product when compared with the other countries'.
So we are miserly! And yet, we have real trouble at home.
We can't afford to be sending money everywhere else!
Leave them alone!
They've gotten along for centuries, and they will without us being there!
One specific recommendation is the creation of a Department of Development' an agency on par with the Departments of State and Defense.
Another key recommendation is to change how the United States communicates with the rest of the world. Too often the nation has used "the rhetoric of fear and anger" when stating its foreign policy, said Armitage, who served during Bush's first term. "We have to get back to exporting more traditional American values."
Gee, if you look at the history of this country and westward expansion, I don't know if the world wants our bombs dropped on their heads.
Traditional values like genocide of a native population and importation of another for slave labor?
The imperial forays into Asia that would follow?
Mass-murder and torture?
Would you want those values exported to you, Amurkn?
How about leaving people alone and trading with them?
