HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- It should be noted that
Lieberman who wants to use the military to force so called
"American values" on the Muslim world is also (naturally) an outspoken Zionist and supporter of Israel as well staunchly anti -Cuban. He advocates continuing and strengthening the illegal U.S. blockade of Cuba and is opposed to any normalization of relations between the the U.S and Cuba. mart ----- Original Message ----- From: Nicholas Camerota To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 4:51 PM Subject: The LIEberman Doctrine [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- Meant to post this earlier. More from The Man Who Would Be President, whose "values-based" interventionism is now being termed "the Lieberman Doctrine." Sounds suitably presidential. Below are some excerpts from a recent Hartford Courant report. - NC -------------- Lieberman's Foreign Policy: Propagate U.S. Values -------------- by DAVID LIGHTMAN, Washington Bureau Chief [January 14, 2002] WASHINGTON -- Joe Lieberman's view of the United States' role in the world can be described in one phrase: Promote American values. He routinely speaks of the "primacy of values" and how this country must have a foreign and military policy that is "values-based and fully engaged." And in a speech today, he urges the country to pursue a two-track foreign policy, one that deals with the current terrorist threat but also pursues a longer-range strategy of promoting American values in Muslim countries. His address, heavily publicized in Washington, will be given at Georgetown University as part of that school's Lecture Fund series. It serves three purposes - it details Lieberman's foreign policy positions; it reviews what he learned on last week's trip to Central Asia; and it helps position him as a leading Democratic Party voice on international affairs. The Democrats are without any single public spokesman for foreign policy. Senate Majority Leader Thomas A. Daschle, D-S.D., is more interested in domestic matters, and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden Jr., D-Del., who is touring the same areas as Lieberman, is not as well-known as the Connecticut senator. Lieberman, the Democrats' 2000 vice presidential candidate, has the background, the platform and the opportunity, and he's taking it. What drives the Lieberman doctrine is that he believes that it is this country's duty to spread its views of democracy and faith in God - its values - around the world. The next great challenge, he will say today, is to promote those values in Muslim countries; doing so, he believes, is very much is in the United States' interest because it aids this country's national security. In a December speech to the moderate Democratic Leadership Council, Lieberman defined the war on terrorism as pitting "the medieval zealotry and religious fanaticism of a holy war against the universalistic, humanitarian, democratic, tolerant ideals of America," he said, "ideals which, incidentally, are themselves faith-based." Lieberman has strong feelings about this. He has said this country's "fundamental principles" are "as much on the line in this war against terrorism as they were in our battles with Nazism and communism." That's why, he said last week as he prepared to return from Afghanistan, the United States' immediate steps should involve diplomatic efforts in the India-Pakistan and Middle East conflicts, the ouster of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, and a refusal to deal with Iran or any other country that will not cooperate in rooting out terrorists. In fact, he is expected to say today, the United States should be prepared to challenge countries that harbor terrorists, regardless of whether we get help from those countries. And he is expected to continue his willingness to embrace and support insurgent movements in renegade nations. There has also been a steady drumbeat of criticism for Lieberman's 11-year-old view that the United States should seek to militarily overthrow the current government of Iraq. Perhaps the biggest question surrounding the Lieberman doctrine is how far the United States should be prepared to go in defending and promoting a values-based foreign policy. Should it overlook human rights violations in China? Should it support moderate regimes that deny their citizens certain civil liberties? And most important, just what should the United States' commitment be to these countries? Clearly, Lieberman said last week, the United States should play an important diplomatic role, "to use our fully flexed muscles to mediate some of the regional disputes that will only become more incendiary if we remain distant from them." Lieberman has long been unafraid to support military intervention when he believes it is needed. He was one of the most outspoken Democrats in 1991 in backing President Bush's father's request for authority to conduct the Gulf War, and was just as vocal in his support for sending American troops to Bosnia in 1998. Ultimately, Lieberman is likely to call for a policy that deals with the Muslim world the way the United States dealt with the Communist threat after World War II - fight aggression where challenged, promote democracy everywhere. Copyright 2002, Hartford Courant
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