A General Foreign Policy Statement

It is my firm contention that the United States has a destiny - handed down from divine providence - to lead a global empire of liberty. This empire would not be based on the vile virtues of prior empires, rather, on the desire to create a global system which prized self-determination under democratic law and used capitalism as the engine for advancing humanity. The timeless, God-given virtues of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness are the greatest assets the United States and her stalwart people can bestow upon the world. Toward that end, it is necessary that -- despite our internal political divisions -- we realize the need to maintain and fund a military-industrial complex which is capable of meeting the full-spectrum combat demands of the 21st Century battlefield.

We must also expand our intelligence community's ability to utilize HUMINT and to remove the risk-averse tendencies of the upper echelons of the intelligence community's leadership. We must replace that risk aversion with extreme boldness and devout fervor in spreading the American way of life; thereby reducing global tensions, realigning the global order to focus on economics rather than warfare, and allowing more people in more places to prosper.

Such things as the Pentagon's Future Combat Systems, Land Warrior Programs, space-based weaponry development, and other key areas of military technological and strategical expansion are now in jeopardy under the Obama Administration. As a Fiscal Conservative, I can certainly understand the need to curtail wasteful spending, however, I cannot stand idly by and allow the United States to be forced to cease all of its military development in the vain hope of making other global powers stop their pursuit of lethal combat systems. They will not. Any cessation in development will only inspire our foes (both current and future) to intensify development in order to achieve a greater parity with the United States and diminish our much-beloved primacy of power. This would diminish our fledgling empire of liberty and would jeopardize not only the American people, but the entire planet since the next largest nations which could displace the US from its global hegemony are totalitarian, Collectivist states like the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation.

On a final note, as the U.S.-Islamist War (aka Global War on Terror) enters into its twilight (the shifting of resources from a tamed Iraq to an untamed Pakistan), we need to be ready to address key issues that will face the US. These key "issues" in Foreign Policy are:

1) The Reawakening People's Republic of China
2) The Resurgent Russian Federation
3) A Sabre-Rattling (Potentially) Nuclear-Armed Iran
4) A Desperate & Dying Rogue N. Korean Regime
5) A Rising India

The policy prescription is simple and succinct: greater involvement in Central Asian Affairs. In that regard, our mission in Iraq was by definition a success (in the long run) as we will now have a viable base for prolonged power-projection into that region. This is why increased military funding is essential. As of FY 2008 Defense Spending consumed 4% of our GDP. I say we kick it up to at least 10 and cut back on ill-advised domestic programs (i.e. Social Security Ponzi Scheme, Welfare, Congressional Earmarks, etc.). I will be creating more blog entries in the future detailing the rise of these important five issues (as well as several others) and present what I believe to be acceptable, detailed foreign policy prescriptions.

Just as it was necessary for the island empire of Great Britain to prevent any one nation on the European mainland from coalescing into a serious threat to British interests, so to is it now necessary for the "island" of US-led North America to prevent the coalescence of unified threats from emerging on the Eurasian "mainland." This is not done out of malice or spite, rather in defense of both the United States and the divine virtues which she was built from.

To conclude this very basic outline of what I believe to be America's essential future foreign policy, I would like to include a brilliant quote from the brilliant Winston Churchill:

"If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope for victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves."

Thank you.

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