Protecting our sovereignty and strengthening our alliances.
In order to deal with the challenges America faces around the world, we need to re-think how we work with our allies and with international organizations. Our foremost goal is to defend our own security and liberty, and to restore the belief in liberty in our own foreign policy and that of our allies.
To do so we must show strong leadership while demanding more from our allies. Many European countries have been able to create expensive social welfare systems and drop their defense spending to almost nothing because since World War II, the U.S. has been paying most of the cost of their defense. We need to hold them more accountable for their own defense and end their free ride at our expense.
Further, the U.S. has been too willing to turn the other cheek when slapped by the United Nations or other international organizations. The UN has perverted the idea of democracy as Americans understand it. Rather than empowering people and protecting their rights, it empowers and protects governments, even the most brutal and anti-democratic. By attempting to work through the UN, we have unintentionally boosted those who wish us ill.
Therefore we need an organization of democracies that include only free nations. Many of our closest allies, such as Britain, Japan, Canada and Australia, would qualify. Other nations who are nearly free politically and economically could be observer nations who participate in conferences but do not vote.
We must not bend to international pressure to become a party to treaties that would damage our interests, or violate our sovereignty. We are, whether we like it or not, the world’s leader, and we need to assert our leadership in the direction of the values that have proven themselves – economic, religious and political freedom, and standing strong to defend these things.
