Do you agree or disagree with this general statement about where U.S. foreign policy should go?

[Ken Burch]

21. OK...here are some ways you can create such a partnership:

1) Apologize for every past instance in which the U.S. overthrew or destabilized an elected government-including the coup the U.S. and the UK staged in Iran in 1953, which put the Shah back into absolute power against the wishes of the Iranian people-and commit never to do that again. I would suggest that, among other things, the next U.S. president travel to Guatemala, Chile, Nicaragua and the Dominican republic to atone for our past leaders did throughout Latin America for most of the time since 1823;

2) Announce that we will not arm regimes who are using force to put down protest-which would mean, among other things, ending all further arms sales to Saudi Arabia, a regime we should never have given unquestioned support for;

3) Agree that we will not support the imposition of austerity programs on countries receiving bailouts-such as Greece, where, with U.S. acquiescence, the people have been subjected to brutal economic punishment-including massive forced cuts in pensions that have literally resulted in elderly people committing suicide to avoid just plain starving to death-for a debt crisis that was caused almost exclusively by the actions of wealthy Greeks and Goldman Sachs;

4) Make it clear that we won't oppose any movements for social or economic justice anywhere in the world;

Those are some fairly easy steps to take.

We'd lose nothing any of us really needs.

It's a real quote.