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David McReynolds on Foreign Policy
Eliminate most foreign aid; it’s only for disasters
- McReynolds supports the following statements regarding foreign aid:
- Aid should be granted to countries when extraordinary circumstances cause disaster and threaten civilian lives.
- Would Eliminate Funding for Colombia; Egypt; Israel; Kosovo province; Mexico; North Korea; Russia; Turkey.
- Greatly increase funding for UN Crisis and Humanitarian Aid and UN Peace Keeping Missions
Oppose IMF, World Bank, and WTO
We oppose the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization as instruments of oppression throughout the world. We call for the reassessment of all international trade negotiations in light of workers’, farmers’, consumers’, and environmental interests.
East Timor: force Indonesia to control their militias
The US has no interests in East Timor - but it does have substantial interests in Indonesia, which accounts for the close cooperation between the US and Indonesia military up to and after the UN vote. I have stayed away from the
discussion of whether or not to intervene with a UN force because the chances were too good that everyone would be dead before that could be achieved (for one thing, without Indonesia’s cooperation, China would almost
certainly have vetoed any UN action). My own position has been and remains that a really powerful position by the US (and Britain, Japan and Australia) would force Indonesia to control the “militias” which have
clearly been permitted to operate by the Indonesian military. And this seems to be happening.
Create non-US-based international peackkeepers
The military-industrial complex pervades every state, virtually every university, dominates the media through indirect corporate links, and involves the trade unions because of military jobs. If ever there was a time for a peace movement to strike at
the military, root and branch, it is now, when the US has no foreign enemies to threaten it, and when the chance might exist to create some legitimate international forms of peace-keeping that were not linked to US or West European economic interests.
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