What the HELL is the DLC talking about? [View All]

[La_Serpiente]

OK, I go to the DLC Website once in a while to see what is "cookin'". What are they talking about? They are talking about "Progressive Multilateralism".

I am a multilateralist myself. However, not in the way they are proposing.

Here is what the shared about the left:

Too many on the left seem incapable of taking America's side in international disputes, reflexively oppose the use of force, and begrudge the resources required to keep our military strong. Viewing multilateralism as an end in itself, they lose sight of goals, such as fighting terrorism or ending gross human rights abuses, which sometimes require us to act -- if need be outside a sometimes ineffectual United Nations. And too many adopt an anti-globalization posture that would not only erode our own prosperity but also consign billions of the world's neediest people to grinding poverty. However troubling the Bush record, the pacifist and protectionist left offers no credible alternative.

I am not an isolationalist as they have claimed. However, I opposed the Iraqui war. I do not know who gave them the king's scepter of "Progressive Multilateralism" but they should just shut their trap.

And then they say this later.

Liberal democracy. Democrats believe that America should use its unparalleled power to defend our country and to shape a world in which the values of liberal democracy increasingly hold sway.

Isn't this exactly what Wolfowitz believes?

And I don't know why they are criticizing those on the left. More than 128 House Democrats voted against the War Resolution (with the help of Kucinich). Right there, they are alienating MORE THAN HALF OF THE DEMOCRATIC HOUSE DELEGATION!!!! They are alienating THE CORE DEMOCRATS of the Democratic Party.

I don't know how they go around saying that they represent new ideas. To me, all they represent are a group of Conservative Democrats like Zell Miller.

Page 1 - Progressive Multilateralism

Page2 - Progressive Multilateralism

I have this feeling that this new foreign policy institute, Center for American Progress, is just another product of the DLC.

Center for American Progress

My views are more "ensync" with this new group.

Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy