Democratic Candidates: Where they Stand - 3

Posted Tue, 02/24/2004 - 04:19 by Tewa

"If I had ever been here before on another time around the wheel
I would probably know just how to deal
With all of you
And I feel
like I've been here before..."

DejaVu - David Crosby

FYI: The only people that have specific plans for dealing with Al Qaeda and North Korea are Wes Clark and Howard Dean...

Oh but, sorry...you don't get to vote for them.
Read on for Kerry and Edward's Foreign Policy plans.Foreign Policy

John Kerry

  1. Restore diplomacy - enlist expert and thoughtful Americans of both parties as envoys to carry a new American message around the world.
  2. Put the United Nations in charge of the reconstruction and governance-building processes in Iraq.I
  3. Engage Iran and renew bilateral negotiations with North Korea on the nuclear issue . Seek a new international protocol to track and account for existing nuclear weapons and to deter the development of chemical and biological arsenals.
  4. Appoint a Presidential Ambassador to the Middle East Peace Process who will report directly to me and the Secretary of State. Would consider appointing: President Carter, former Secretary of State James Baker, President Clinton.
  5. Appoint a Presidential Envoy for the Islamic world who will seek to strengthen moderate Islam and find new ways to isolate the terrorists.
  6. Ask Congress to pass legislation creating a Director of National Intelligence, with real control of all national intelligence personnel and budgets.
  7. Expand NATO forces and deploy them outside Kabul. Accelerate training for the Afghan army and police.
  8. Launch a "name and shame" campaign against individuals, banks and foreign governments that are financing terror. Those who fail to respond will be shut out of American financial markets.
  9. Adopt a new energy policy for America and create a real partnership against terror with Saudi Arabia.

John Edwards

  1. Bring other countries and institutions into the important effort of rebuilding Iraq.
  2. Secure Afghanistan -expand the size and scope of an international peacekeeping force beyond Kabul.
  3. Strengthen our commitment to the Biological Weapons Convention and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, increase support for the dismantling and safeguarding of weapons-grade materials in Russia and the former Soviet states, and work with allies to solve urgent proliferation threats like North Korea.
  4. Revitalize institutions like NATO and the United Nations