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help communities plan for a transition fr
a defense to a domestic
economy. Thirty-one percent of our graduate engineers work for the defense industry.
They and other highly skilled workers and technicians are a vital national resource at a
time when our technological edge in a world economy must be sharper than ever
before. I have called for a new advanced research agency - a civilian DARPA - that
could help capture for commercial work the brilliance of scientists and engineers who
have accomplished wonders on the battlefield.
We must be
Likewise, those who have served the nation in uniform cannot be
strong at home
dumped on the job market. We've got to enlist them to help meet our many needs at
to lead and
home. By shifting people from active duty to the National Guard and reserves, offering
early retirement options, limiting re-enlistment and slowing the pace of recruitment,
maintain global
we can build down our forces in a gradual way that doesn't abandon people of proven
growth."
commitment and competence.
Our people in uniform are among the most highly skilled in the
areas we need most. We need to transfer those human resources into our workforce
and even into our schools, perhaps in part by using reserve centers and closed bases
for community-based education and training programs.
The defense policy I have outlined keeps America strong and still
yields substantial savings. The American people have earned this peace dividend
through forty years of unrelenting vigilance and sacrifice and an investment of
trillions of dollars. And they are entitled to have the dividend reinvested in their
future.
Finally, America needs to reach a new agreement with our allies for
sharing the costs and risks of maintaining peace. While Desert Storm set a useful
precedent for cost-sharing, our forces still did most of the fighting and dying. We need
to shift that burden to a wider coalition of nations of which America will be a part. In
the Persian Gulf, in Namibia, in Cambodia and elsewhere in recent years, the United
Nations has begun to play the role that Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman
envisioned for it. We must take the lead now in making their vision real - by
expanding the Security Council and making Germany and Japan permanent members:
by continuing to press for greater efficiency in U.N. administration: and by exploring
ways to institutionalize the U.N.'s success in mobilizing international participation in
Desert Storm.
One proposal worth exploring calls for a U.N. Rapid Deployment
Force that could be used for purposes beyond traditional peacekeeping, such as
standing guard at the borders of countries threatened by aggression: preventing
attacks on civilians; providing humanitarian relief; and combatting terrorism and drug
trafficking.
In Europe, new security arrangements will evolve over the next
decade. While insisting on a fairer sharing of the common defense burden, we must
not turn our back on NATO. Until a more effective security system emerges, we must
give our allies no reason to doubt our constancy.
As we restructure our military forces, we must reinforce the
powerful global movement toward democracy.
U.S. foreign policy cannot be divorced from the moral principles
most Americans share. We cannot disregard how other governments treat their own
people, whether their domestic institutions are democratic or repressive, whether they
help encourage or check illegal conduct beyond their borders. This does not mean we
should deal only with democracies or that we should try to remake the world in our
image. But recent experience from Panama to Iran to Iraq shows the dangers of
32
forging strategic relationships with despotic regimes.
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