Given our poor image abroad today, is there a new Marshall Plan, a new opportunity for US leadership?
I’m even looking for something a little more modest. Not even U.S. leadership, but just U.S. partnership. Let’s find partners around the world who are ready to work with us, who are desperate for the U.S. to be back in the problem-solving mode rather than in the military mode, so that we can cooperate and solve these problems. I’m not even pitching the idea that the U.S. should finance this like we did in the Marshall plan. The world today is multi-polar; there’s a lot more wealth around. I think China should put up some of the money, Europe should put up some of the money, along with the United States and other countries. The problem isn’t our lack of leadership – it’s that we aren’t meeting the standard of being a basic partner with the poorest of the poor. [The world is lacking] our collegiality, our readiness to say, “Yes, we understand your vulnerability, your hunger, the risk of your children dying and we’re ready to work together with you.” Because that would not only solve prob
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