Congressional Digest

International Debates Archives October 2008 No. 7 Vol. 6
Republican Platform

Foreign Policy and the 2008 Election

Contrasting Approaches to Global Affairs and Relationships

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Republican Platform

"We Are a Party - as We Are a Nation - of Mavericks"

The following is excerpted from the Republican Party Platform adopted by the delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Three decades ago, in a world as dangerous as today’s, Americans of allstripes came together to advance the cause of freedom. They had witnessed thewreckage of inexperienced good intentions at the highest levels of government,the folly of an amateur foreign policy. And so, in defiance of a worldwideMarxist advance, they announced a goal as enduring as the vision of Isaiah, to“proclaim liberty to the captives, and summed up America’s strategy for achievingthat end in a timeless slogan: peace through…

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