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THE TIME HAS COME FOR A NEW POLITICAL PARADIGM

Foreign Policy

(Addressing foreign aid, international trade, diplomatic relations, the U.N., etc.)

1. Improve socio-economic conditions in the United States so that every nation will aspire to learn from our model
   • Focus more on resolving our own economic challenges rather than attempting to influence the political environments of other countries
     • Work to reduce unemployment, poverty and illiteracy in the United States; areas in which our performance has markedly worsened over the past few years
     • Create a model of excellence that inspires other nations to look to us for guidance rather than trying to impose our ideals on them through our purported “nation building” efforts
2. Support those nations that consistently demonstrate their support of the United States
   • Extend the highest level of consideration to provide such nations with any requested assistance that is in alignment with the strategies, priorities and capabilities of the United States
3. Respect the sovereignty of those nations that do not support the United States
   • Withdraw U.S. troops from any country that has not requested our military presence
   • Withdraw U.S. troops from any country that has requested our military presence but has undermined our troops’ safety or effectiveness
   • Withdraw all foreign aid from such countries so that they may truly govern their countries independently
   • Withdraw all other forms of Federal assistance so as not to interfere with their social autonomy
   • Leave modest diplomatic channels open to facilitate communication
4. Request the United Nations to take a more active role with respect to world peace
   • Request the U.N. to take a more proactive role with respect to maintaining the peace or responding to situations that require military intervention
   • Request the U.N. to exercise a more rational basis in the formation of its committees to maintain some semblance of credibility; as contra-examples:
     • Sudan, which has orchestrated genocide in Darfur, sits on the Human Rights Council, and
     • Iran sits on the Commission on the Status of Women
   • Barring the requested changes:
     • Reduce the United States’ funding of the U.N. (currently: approximately 22% of the U.N.’s general budget and 27% of its peacekeeping force), or
     • Consider withdrawing from the U.N. and requiring the organization to move to another country
5. Establish equitable trade relations
   • Create trade agreements that establish new market opportunities for all countries involved
     • Mitigate regulatory and labor disparities to the degree possible to create competitive parity
6. Respond to emerging global issues or threats in a rational way
   • Time permitting, exhaust all diplomatic channels to resolve global issues or threats to the United States
   • In the event that diplomatic channels fail to resolve the issue or threat in a timely manner, pursue and impose economic and other sanctions to achieved the desired result
     • In the event that other countries choose to provide alternatives that allow the infringing country to circumvent such sanctions, the United States would consider deploying cascading sanctions against such enabling countries in a form that would offset any economic (or other) benefit that such enabling countries would otherwise derive
   • In the event that all other efforts fail to successfully resolve an issue in a timely manner and that such issue poses an immediate or impending threat to the United States, all other options (including military) would be explored

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