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Campaign 2016

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
The Isolationist Temptation |
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Richard N. Haass

It has been only a quarter-century since the end of the Cold War, but
the U.S. is already in the midst of its second great foreign-policy
debate of the post-Soviet era. The first, which carried us from the
administration of the first President Bush through the second, was
over the appropriate extent of America's global ambitions. It
took place largely among foreign policy elites, between those who
(roughly speaking) wanted to stabilize the world and decrease the
chances of conflict, and those who sought to liberalize other
countries, hoping to spread democracy and improve the lot of people
suffering from tyranny and civil war. The second debate, which is
being played out today, centers on whether the U.S. should retain the
leading international role it has held since the end of World War II.

THE NEW YORK TIMES

50 G.O.P. Officials Warn Donald Trump Would Put Nation's
Security 'at Risk' |

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David E. Sanger and Maggie Haberman

Fifty of the nation's most senior Republican national security
officials, many of them former top aides or cabinet members for
President George W. Bush, have signed a letter declaring that Donald
J. Trump "lacks the character, values and experience" to
be president and "would put at risk our country's national
security and well-being." Mr. Trump, the officials warn,
"would be the most reckless president in American
history." It says he has "demonstrated repeatedly that he
has little understanding" of the nation's "vital
national interests, its complex diplomatic challenges, its
indispensable alliances and the democratic values" on which
American policy should be based.

VOX

Why Hillary Clinton Wouldn't Be a Foreign Policy Hawk as
President |

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Jeremy Shapiro and Richard Sokolsky

Clinton has indeed often favored the use of force. But President
Hillary Clinton would not likely be the uber hawk that so many expect.
First, her record is in fact more nuanced than is often appreciated
- she has just as often pushed for diplomatic solutions as
military ones. But more importantly, it is because, as president, she
will find that the use of force abroad will offer precious few
opportunities for making a difference, and will come at a considerable
political cost at home. But while there is no doubt that Clinton has
often supported the use of force, she just as frequently supported
diplomacy and negotiations as the nation's first line of
defense.

HUFFINGTON POST

If Elected, Clinton Could Give Children's Treaty A Decisive
Boost

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Adam Fifield Author, 'A Mighty Purpose: How Jim Grant Sold the
World on Saving Its Children'

The US is now the only country in the world that has not ratified the
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Is it a coincidence
that the US has one of the worst infant mortality rates in the
industrialized world? A 2015 Save the Children study found that
Washington, DC had the highest infant mortality rate among 25 capital
cities in wealthy countries around the world. The best chance of
moving the CRC forward now rests with the very woman who pledged her
country would sign it more than two decades ago. Child rights
advocates are hopeful that, if elected President, Hillary Clinton will
finally give the children's treaty the priority it deserves.

Development & Diplomacy

THE HILL
Don't Let North Korea Divide U.S. Allies in Asia

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Republican Norm Coleman represented Minnesota in the U.S. Senate from
2003-2009. During his six years in the Senate, he served on the
Foreign Relations Committee as Chair of the Western Hemisphere and
ranking member of the Near East subcommittees. Senator Coleman
currently serves as a board member of the National Endowment for
Democracy and on the Advisory Council for the U.S. Global Leadership
Coalition

Just a few short days ago, North Korea fired two ballistic missiles,
one landing in the Sea of Japan, in defiance of strict UN Security
Council resolutions. The North Korean dictatorship appears determined
to foster a sense of instability and "divide" U.S. allies
in the Asia-Pacific region. Kim Jong Un, North Korea's dictator,
personally "provided field guidance" for the missile launch. As North
Korea continues to fire off ballistic missiles and build up its
nuclear arsenal, the United States must continue to support South
Korea, Japan and all our allies the region. We cannot allow North
Korea to use the comfort women agreement or other wartime historical
issues to "divide" our allies in Asia.

THE NEW YORK TIMES
How the Most Dangerous Place on Earth Got a Little Bit Safer |

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Sonia Nazario

The Rivera Hernández neighborhood in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, where
194 people were killed or hacked to death in 2013, had the highest
homicide rate in the city. Tens of thousands of young Hondurans
traveled to the United States to plead for asylum from the drug
gangs' violence. This summer I returned to Rivera Hernández to
find a remarkable reduction in violence, much of it thanks to programs
funded by the United States that have helped community leaders tackle
crime. By treating violence as if it were a communicable disease and
changing the environment in which it propagates, the United States has
not only helped to make these places safer, but has also reduced the
strain on our own country. Smart investments in Honduras are
succeeding. This offers a striking rebuke to the rising isolationists
in American politics.

HUFFINGTON POST
The World Is Not As Bad As We Think, Says Harvard Psychologist

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Steven Pinker, a scientist, psychologist and linguist, recently spoke
with the Berggruen Institute's Alex Gorlach at Harvard
University, where Pinker teaches in the department of psychology.

There are factors such as globalization - countries are more enmeshed,
so their welfare is directly impacted by the welfare of another state.
The incentives for conquest and invasion have been outnumbered by the
incentives to make business - what that means is that a person alive
is worth more to me than a dead one, or buying a good is easier than
stealing one. Another factor is the change in value systems. Wars were
fought over religion, over nationalism, over what script systems to
use. Now, each country has their own land and their own language.
Also, there has been a global trend toward humanism, where the
ultimate goal is achieving health for women and children.

THE HILL
Global Development Initiatives - Why It Matters

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Sylvain Roy is the President and CEO of CNFA: Cultivating New
Frontiers in Agriculture

In the most pragmatic sense, helping others in the world to produce a
dependable supply of food enhances America's national security.
That's because people who are hungry and economically
disadvantaged are vulnerable people. And as we have seen over and
over, those people can become candidates for radicalization that
threatens not only their nations, but ours as well. Improving the
ability of smallholder farmers to move beyond subsistence farming
helps elevate whole communities. Consequently, developing programs to
shift people out of extreme poverty toward economic security
contributes to the development of a "middle class" of
consumers with the financial capacity not only to thrive locally, but
also to purchase products and services that the United States can
supply.

THE WASHINGTON POST

The Government Asked Innovators to Combat Zika. Here Are Their Ideas.
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Steven Overly

The call for applications was broad and immediate: As the Zika virus
was spreading throughout the Americas, the U.S. Agency for
International Development wanted innovators with bold solutions to
step forward. Nearly 900 did so, and officials winnowed them down to
21 of the most promising ideas Wednesday. Those ideas included
sexually transmitted bacteria that limit mosquitoes' ability
distribute the disease, as well as specialty sandals that would help
protect people from bites. There are solutions that employ mobile apps
and diagnostic tests, and even those that use infrared light and
electric force fields.

Politics & Foreign Policy

FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Building on Success

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Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Vice President of the United States

Despite the proliferation of threats and challenges-some old,
some new-by almost any measure, we are stronger and more secure
today than when President Barack Obama and I took office in January
2009. Because of our investments at home and engagement overseas, the
United States is primed to remain the world's preeminent power
for decades to come. In more than 40 years of public service, I have
never been more optimistic about America's future-if only
we continue to lead. From the outset, our administration has been
guided by the belief that the foundations of U.S. global leadership
reside first and foremost in our dynamic economy, peerless military,
and universal values. We have built on these core strengths by
expanding and modernizing the United States' unrivaled network
of alliances and partnerships and embedding them within a wider
international order of rules and institutions.

THE NEW YORK TIMES
Obama's Worst Mistake |

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Nicholas Kristof

I admire Obama for expanding health care and averting a nuclear crisis
with Iran, but allowing Syria's civil war and suffering to drag
on unchallenged has been his worst mistake, casting a shadow over his
legacy. In fairness, Obama is right to be cautious about military
involvement, and we don't know whether the more assertive
approaches favored by Hillary Clinton, Gen. David Petraeus and many
others would have been more effective. But I think Obama and Americans
in general are mistaken when they seem to suggest: It's horrible
what's going on over there, but there's just nothing we
can do. Madeleine Albright, Bill Clinton's secretary of state,
agrees that we can do more, like set up safe zones.

FOREIGN POLICY
How the Pentagon Became Walmart |

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Rosa Brooks

As we face novel security threats from novel quarters -
emanating from nonstate terrorist networks, from cyberspace, and from
the impact of poverty, genocide, or political repression, for instance
- we've gotten into the habit of viewing every new threat
through the lens of "war," thus asking our military to
take on an ever-expanding range of nontraditional tasks. But viewing
more and more threats as "war" brings more and more
spheres of human activity into the ambit of the law of war, with its
greater tolerance of secrecy, violence, and coercion - and its
reduced protections for basic rights. Meanwhile, asking the military
to take on more and more new tasks requires higher military budgets,
forcing us to look for savings elsewhere, so we freeze or cut spending
on civilian diplomacy and development programs. As budget cuts cripple
civilian agencies, their capabilities dwindle, and we look to the
military to pick up the slack, further expanding its role.


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