Where have I heard that term before? For many years I have been preaching that the 2 major parties are so similar that one needs a guidebook to determine which is which. On May 31, 2008 I did a post on McCain’s proposal of a League of Democracies. Back in 2007, the Democratic Leadership Council, printed a proposal for a “Concert Of Democracies”.
Some U.S. progressives are coalescing around an idea they hope will resolve this dilemma: a Concert of Democracies. As envisioned by the Princeton Project, led by John Ikenberry and Anne-Marie Slaughter, the Concert would combine non- Western nations like Japan, India, South Korea, and Australia with the trans-Atlantic partners in a global alliance of some 60 genuinely liberal democracies.
Its main purpose would be to create a more effective instrument of collective security, by reforming the United Nations if possible, or by creating an alternative venue for action if necessary. A Princeton Project report puts it this way: “If (Security Council) expansion and reform proves impossible by the end of this decade & the Concert could become an alternative forum for the approval of the use of force in cases where the use of the veto at the Security Council prevented free nations from keeping faith with the aims of the U.N. Charter.”
A coalition that includes the world’s richest countries would also be a soft-power juggernaut. It could coordinate trade and aid strategies to encourage growth and reform in developing countries. Following the precedent of the European Union and the former Soviet satellite countries, the prospect of joining the Concert would give countries strong incentives to liberalize their economic and political systems. And its decisions would arguably be more legitimate than those of the United Nations, a majority of whose members are not democratically accountable to their people.
Sorry but we “progressives” are not playing this game. This basically the same proposal that McCain came up with, or should I say , which came first the league or the concert? Both these proposals are just an attempt to circumvent the UN. These both want to put the US i9n the drivers seat, when actually gthe US has lost the control of the economic vehicle to developing countries.
This idea is just another conservative plan, whether it comes from Repubs or Dems. The DLC has steadily moved the Dem Party into the column of conservatism. I was always amazed when I would hear that Clinton is a liberal. Nothing and I mean nothing is further from the truth. Why do I mention this, well Clinton, both of them are members of the DLC and as such are nothing more than conservatives in Dem clothing.