Reply #50: DING! DING! DING! Got it. [View All]

[Silverhair]

We don't have a policy because we don't have clear goals. What are our goals in foriegn policy? Elucidate them clearly as a statement of principles.

We may not like PNAC, but it is a very clear statement of what they intend to accomplish and how to go about it. Once you have a clearly agreed on statement then you can organize everything else around it. So they have a stated goal and a plan.

Remember the "Contract with America" in 94? It unified the Reps so that they were able to run all their campaigns on one set of themes. They kicked our butts that year, and we still haven't recovered.

We don't even have consensus on when force may or may not be used, even as a principle, never mind in specific cases.

If we are going to win elections, we are going to have to hash out those kind of issues, arrive at consensus, get some clearly written goals of what we support and what we oppose.

I attempt to stimulate discussion on those issues. Since I want my posst to be noticed, I am not above using attention attracting titles, like yesterdays.