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by Bill Berkowitz http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=16936<SNIP> ...in a policy document entitled "Progressive Internationalism: A Democratic National Security Strategy" the DLC addresses foreign policy issues. It basically echoes the Bush Administration's foreign policy objectives, while giving lip service to the need for including other nations. The document touts the "party's tradition of muscular internationalism" and explains that it "supported the Bush administration's toppling of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan" and "backed the goal of ousting Saddam Hussein's malignant regime... because Saddam posed a grave danger to America as well as his own brutalized people, and because his blatant defiance of more than a decade's worth of United Nations Security Council resolutions was undermining both collective security and international law."
News that Bob Shrum, the long-time Democratic Party insider and close advisor to Senator Ted Kennedy -- who recently called Iraq "George Bush's Vietnam" -- will be playing a greater role in the Kerry campaign may or may not shift the candidate's foreign policy thrust. Shrum is a co-founder, along with James Carville and Stanley Greenberg, of Democracy Corps, a liberal political research group that frequently counters the DLC line.
Eliot Cohen, director of the Strategic Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, isn't sure there will be any policy changes. "When I look at the kinds of people who are advising Kerry, assuming Kerry runs his foreign policy from center and right of the Democratic Party, it would be very compatible with the Bush administration," Cohen told the Chronicle's Robert Collier. <SNIP> If this is true, Kerry is the Dem version of Nixon, who promised "peace with honor" but ended up escalating the war in Vietnam. Kerry's corporate cronys are of the same mold as Bush's. |
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