[Catalonia]

Well, here are a few points for starters:

Anchor our foreign policy in the compassion for the poor that unites all the world's religions.
The U.S. provides more money in foreign aid than any other nation. We also provide a MINIMUM of $200 billion in charitable giving a year. How much of that is foreign aid I’m not sure. This of course does not include the MASSIVE amounts of remittances funneled from recent immigrants to their home countries, and does not account for the value of the massive amounts of time and labor provided by individuals in NGOs (non-governmental organizations).

Reduce the debts of impoverished countries.
Tell them to set up a privately funded foundation for this purpose.

Shift foreign aid from buying weapons to feeding people.
Then how will you provide for the common defense?

Make America stand for justice, not expediency.
Irrelevant claptrap.

Stop turning a blind eye to governments that abuse their own people.
Like Iraq, North Korea, and Iran?

Ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
Only if we convene a Convention on the Rights of Conservatives in America and the Convention on the Elimination of Demonization of Men.

If punishing a foreign tyrant means, in actual practice, punishing the women and children who are his victims, desist, and find another path.
Turn it around: If NOT punishing a foreign tyrant means, in actual practice, punishing the women and children who are his victims, desist and find another path (i.e., punish the tyrant).

Throw America's full weight behind the United Nations, the only political body that holds all the world’s nations in the age of globalization.
We already pay the bulk of the UN’s dues.

If the United States participates in the United Nations more effectively and fully, other nations will follow suit.
If the rest of the world participates in the UN more effectively and uses it for its intended purpose, the U.S. will follow suit.

Pay our U.N. dues on time and without conditions.
Talk to Bill Clinton about that one.

Withdraw our lonely opposition to the landmine ban, Kyoto Protocol to halt global warming, and International Criminal Court.
The Kyoto Protocol will do very little to reduce global warming but will devastate our economy, upon which the entire world depends. Tough to combat poverty when the world economy collapses. The ICC has fundamental structural flaws: Namely, it claims power over the U.S. Constitution. We only recognize the powers granted by the constitution.

Show once again the "decent respect for the opinions of mankind" that our Declaration of Independence affirms.
We’ll respect other nations when they get off their asses and do something to oppose tyranny. Other nations need to stop being parasites of America’s power – i.e., stop flourishing under our protection while doing nothing to ensure their own (or ours).

America is 5% of the world's people but we generate 25% of the pollution that causes global warming.
Actually, Third World countries are the source of most pollution, not the industrialized nations.

It's our duty to lead. We will reduce our energy consumption 25% by 2010. Make a Moon Mission scale commitment to develop solar and wind power technologies. Set and meet a goal of generating 20% of our energy from renewable sources by 2010.
Ah hell, this one is too big to handle. Let’s just say the issue is far, far more complicated than just building solar panels and wind farms.

5. Close the Book on the Cold War and Ease the Nuclear Nightmare. Cast a cold eye on giant weapons designed to destroy giant enemies that no longer exist.
As noted below, we now only have 10% of our previous warhead arsenal. Sounds like impatience to me.

Cancel obsolete Cold War weapons.
Ask for their military qualifications. If they do not study military strategy they are effectively idiots spouting nonsense.

We applaud the nuclear force cuts announced by President Bush, but even 2,000 warheads poised and aimed at Russia are unwise.
See above.

Actually, they are aimed all over the place. This is a red flag that indicates gross ignorance.
We squander $35 billion a year on this obsolete arsenal.
$35 billion represents less than 10% of our military budget and only 0.35% of our yearly GDP. Hardly a disaster.

Save half of that money, take our missiles off "launch on warning" and invite all nuclear nations to negotiate a nuclear weapons ban.
We have already signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. You know, the treaty that North Korea, Iraq, and Iran are ignoring. And use of nuclear weapons – in fact, chemical and biological weapons, as well -- is already forbidden in international law.

6. Renounce Star Wars and the Militarization of Space. After spending $134 billion dollars (twice our lifetime commitment to cancer research!) our military has nothing to show for its obsession with a dubious Missile Defense but the deep suspicions of our new allies.
It’s called research. And it’s not our allies who are worried.

7. Make Globalization Work for, not against, Working People.

Actually, studies have shown that those companies which have integrated their economies more fully in the global system have enjoyed greater economic growth.
Open the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to the public. Let sunshine into the councils of the World Trade Organization and the North American Free Trade Agreement.
OK. I can live with this.

Affirm that the welfare of the planet's people supersedes corporate patents and profits.
No, actually the rights of the individual supercede the rights of the collective. Human rights and the right to private property (i.e., ‘profits’) have been shown to be one and the same.

8. Ensure Equal Treatment Under Law for All. Vigorously enforce and strengthen the nation’s civil rights laws that guarantee freedom from discrimination based on gender, race, sexual orientation or physical ability.
This is sloppy thinking. Laws don’t guarantee anything. They make certain acts illegal, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made these things illegal. It is illegal to murder, but that doesn’t mean that people don’t get murdered.

Reform America’s criminal justice system laws so that justice is no longer systematically dispensed in a way that disadvantages minorities.
Ask them to proof it. More minorities may be in the prisons, but that doesn’t mean the laws are flawed. This is a logical fallacy.

9. Get Money out of Politics. Curtail the vast corrupting influence of corporate campaign contributions, which make Congress beholden to private interests.
OK, let’s ban the vast corrupting influence of union and Lefty activist campaign contributions, which make Congress beholden to their private interests.

Enact public campaign financing--we can fund it entirely by closing a single offshore corporate tax loophole!
Who determines which party gets how much money?

10. Close the Gap between Rich and Poor Kids at Home. All these words will ring hollow to the world if America does not close the chasm between rich and poor in our own society.
We will fully fund Head Start and health insurance for the millions of American children who can't get either. We will invest the money needed to build and nourish schools worthy of this great nation.

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1. The nations where the children are not starving correlates to the countries with the most capitalism and economic freedom. End starvation? We must remove authoritarian regimes that use food as a weapon. Removing authoritarian regimes would show the most compassion to the poor. Shift foreign aid to countries adopting our constitutional form of government that puts severe limitations on government power and maximum power in the hands of individuals. We can end foreign aid to buy weapons after we have eliminated dictators, socialists, oligarchies and other authoritarian forms of government.

2. You mean like Iraq and North Korea? Part two - See above, no foreign aid, emergency aid to countries with authoritarian rulers.

3. You mean the UN that has elected Libya to lead the UN human rights committee? The UN that has elected Iraq to the disarmament committee? The UN that holds 10 billion of Saddam’s oil for food money. Koyoto treaty- This is the treaty that everyone agreed to in principle but no one signed, right? The treaty that penalizes the USA which is one of the cleanest industrial producers and lets China get away with ‘bout anything?
The international court that trumps our supreme court? Sorry.

4. I can agree to reducing our dependence on oil. Not if it’s at the point of the gun of a government employee. The one that decides to save money on the socialized medicine program by forcing the US citizen to turn in our automobiles so they can be melted down to make bicycles. (insert egalitarian orgasm here) No more oil would mean our young’uns would be telling us through the little speaker boxes “Ya want yeast fries with that yeast burger?”

5. If we have an obsolete arsenal, we better get busy and build a new one. Arsenal can be gotten rid of when all of the authoritarian dictators have been shot by their armed populace.

6. Better talk to China about that.

Ran out of steam. Will use many of your points in my rebuttal. Thanks all!