You can read my entry from Thursday, April 08, 2004, titled The Plan to put this in full context. To sum it up, I rose to the challenge and wrote 5 points for an alternative foreign policy suggestion, in the liberal tradition, to counter those at Blogs4Bush who say all we do is Bush Bash, but offer nothing constructive.

The "Plan" will not work with Shrub in office:

1. Restart the Roadmap to Palestine/Israel peace.
2. Get NATO to help with Iraq security.
3. Expose and Shun the Saudi, Syrian and Iranian link to terrorists.
4. Go backto the UN, & pump Iraq's oil to pay for reconstruction.
5. Rejoin the Community of Nations to bring all humanity a better life, not just our own profits.

Here's your proof that not one of my ideas, many of which are also part of John Kerry's foreign policy theme, will come to pass as long as arrogance and hubris reigns on Pennsylbania Avenue:

From Kevin Drum (nee, Calpundit): The Washington Monthly

On Face the Nation today Joe Biden said he spoke with the President of France, who offered to commit troops to Iraq if the US would get the 5 permanent members of the UN Security Council to agree to a plan to put the UN in charge of the political handover in Iraq (something the Bush admin is begging the UN to do anyway) and maintain control until it happens. That last bit is something the Bushies don't want. They want Bremer and then our new as-yet-unnamed ambassador to remain in charge.

Biden's plan would get us anywhere from 2,000 to 25,000 more foreign troops in Iraq, and more importantly, directly give the rest of the world a stake in the effort. Pat Roberts, the Republican chair of his Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was stunned by this announcement.

Only last week Powell was in Europe trying to work something out to get 1,500 troops to protect the UN commissioner in Baghdad. He came back with a lot of "we'll get back to you" and from the French "our plate is pretty full in Haiti, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, etc."


Reference:
The Washington Monthly