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Imagine the America you want to live in #11

Date: September 28, 2003 | 1 Shaban 1424 Hijriah
Blog: veiled4allah

This week's question is:

What kinds of diplomacy do you wish America modeled for the world?

Post a comment and share your thoughts. Don't forget to read the ground rules for discussion! Please treat others with respect.
The basic rules I ask everyone to agree to follow are:

1) Listen with curiousity and respect.
2) Seek to understand others rather than to persuade them.
3) Offer what you can and ask if you need anything.
4) Speak honestly, but briefly so that others feel free to contribute
and be heard.

The basic principles of this dialogue are:

1) We need to get to know each other if we are to make America a better
place.
2) We can disagree on issues and still share common values.
3) Diverse experiences, opinions, and ideas create stronger dialogues.
4) Our lives and our future depend on human goodness.
~ Posted by Al-Muhajabah, a member of the reality-based community, at 04:45 PM

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Subject: Re: Imagine the America you want to live in #11

If we modeled any kind of diplomacy at all, that would be a good start. The Bush Administration has managed to alienate even most of its allies with its "my way or the highway" approach. We may be powerful enough now to get away with that, but history teaches us that no empire lasts forever. Let's not act in a way that will come back to bite us later.

~ Posted at September 28, 2003 05:01 PM | Comment Permalink
Brian Ulrich said: Total comments: 41   gold stargold stargold stargold star

Subject: Re: Imagine the America you want to live in #11

I'm pretty basic here: I'd like to see us advance our basic values as much as our raw national interest. I admit this has pitfalls, as in the old analogy of a Jainist state working against nations which consumed meat, but when it comes to basics like "Is it okay to have secret police who torture people to death," I would like the U.S. to always answer "No!"

~ Posted at September 28, 2003 06:33 PM | Comment Permalink
Ken Hagler said: Total comments: 43   gold stargold stargold stargold star

Subject: Re: Imagine the America you want to live in #11

I think Jefferson had the right idea:

I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment. And I am not for linking ourselves by new treaties with the quarrels of Europe; entering that field of slaughter to preserve their balance, or joining in the confederacy of Kings to war against the principles of liberty.

Just substitute "the world" for Europe.



~ Posted at September 28, 2003 10:56 PM | Comment Permalink
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