Talk:Foreign Relations

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Foreign Relations Theory should not be founded on the Democratic Peace Theory, which claims that democracies only engage in war with other non-democracies and/or relations with other nation-states are less hostile when the other nation-state is a democracy. This theory is flawed and is a neo-conservative belief. It should be well noted that the current Presidential administration applied this theory with Iraq. 1) We go to war with the non-democracy. 2) We make the country a democracy, so they will (supposedly) be more cooperative to us. Bottom Line: There is no proof to the theory. Please do not form Foreign Policy around it.

First, the opening of the statement is negative and disparaging to the United States. While true, a statement should probably lead with a positive statement of values. It's harder to attack.

Several points should be made prominent and clear: committment to international law, rejection of pre-emptive war (Bush) doctrine, affirmation of right to self-defense, need to uphold international agreements, unreserved ratification of the International Court of Criminal Justice, commitment to the United Nations, diplomacy, and good-faith participation in international organizations.