America Abroad
The best next-gen foreign policy thinking I know is coming out of The Truman National Security Project, the creation of a group of very smart and talented twenty- and early thirty-somethings. They define themselves as Truman Democrats, dedicated to "forging a Democratic foreign policy founded on strength and security, grounded in a strong military and active diplomacy, and committed to furthering the American ideals of freedom, dignity, and opportunity worldwide." (I would be happy to sign on, but I think I'm too old.)
At any rate, the Truman Project has just had its annual meeting, provocatively summarized by Michael Signer on DemocracyArsenal.org. He elaborates six basic principles of Truman Democrat foreign policy -- three shared with neocons (American exceptionalism, the use of force, and American hegemony) -- and three not (the world community, liberal-mindedness, and helping the least well off).
So how about we "rapidly aging but still thinking of ourselves as young leaders" democrats, starting with at least some of my fellow blog members? Do we agree? With all of these? With any of these?
