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    "ocrText": "January 21, 2000\nMEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT\nFROM:\nMICHAEL SELLS\nRE:\nFuturist Memorandum: Toward a Better Global Politic\n1. The United States has seen major, systemic change in the last two terms of the presidency,\nwith a transformed digital based economy, record economic growth, decreased crime, and reform\nof welfare. Few could have predicted such positive accomplishments in such a short period of\ntime.\n2. Despite the massive changes brought about by a global economy, the structures and policy\nframeworks for responding to international have not kept pace with domestic change and growth.\n3. With the end of the cold war, a new paradigm is needed under which Americans can\nrationally discuss our involvement abroad.\n4. Words like \"national interest\" and \"security interest are still being used with cold-war\ndefinitions that no longer apply.\n5. Test case: what do we do and what is our interest in stopping organized mass-atrocity in a\ncountry like Sierra Leone. How can we make the UN more responsive. How can we better\nsupport regional organizations like the OAS and their peacekeeping efforts? When some glibly\naccused NATO of racism for acting in Kosovo but not Africa, Jesse Jackson said, correctly, that\nthe proper response is not to do less to prevent genocide in Kosovo, but to do more in places like\nAfrica.\n6. One clear principle: Follow-through. We have all been told by sports coaches that without\nfollow-through, our throw or swing will be weak. Yet we have not fully applied this elemental\nprinciple in our foreign policy. General Klaus Reinhart recently stated that the budget for all of\nKosovo for the UN was less than one-quarter of one day's bombing expense. Such lack of\nfollow through risks losing the war after we have won the military and political battle; a waste\nand a tragedy if it occurs.\n7. Recognize and articulate success. The Bosnia operations of 1995 and Dayton, the Kosovo\noperations, the Haiti intervention, and even the Somalia intervention, saved when put together\nmillions of lives, stopped the conflict from spreading, and strengthened the credibility of the U.S.\nYet these operations are persistently treated as failures. Yes there are problems, but we must\nlearn to articulate our successes under a new paradigm in which genocide in the Balkans or chaos\nin the Caribbean is made meaningful to American citizens as something that should and will"
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