U.S. Think Tank Calls for More Troops, More Propaganda [1]
Submitted by Diane Farsetta [2] on
"A new security study [3] released by the Third Way [4], a Democratic-leaning think tank [5]," and authored by two former Clinton administration [6] officials, discusses how to rebuild U.S. credibility overseas. "American voters yearn for an alternative to the Bush administration's aggressive foreign policy stance," say the Brookings Institution [7]'s William Galston [8] and Harvard's Elaine Kamarck, "but neither Democrats nor Republicans are articulating a different path." Their study calls for "a robust military response to the terrorist threat," along with "a massive public relations effort akin to the Cold War propaganda [9] machine." Militarily, the study suggests 100,000 more ground troops and "reinvigorated intelligence services." It also calls for "a massive increase to the $140 million the United States spends annually on public diplomacy [10]," and "re-creating the United States Information Agency [11], which was folded into the State Department [12] during the Clinton administration."