[...]To bring back moral clarity and maturity, we must begin to establish a more reciprocal relationship with the willing. We can start by moving all our troops from Germany or relocating them in much smaller pockets in Eastern Europe. This is not just a military issue; and the generals involved there should bow out and yield to their civilian overseers, who recognize the larger political and moral issues at stake. In the post-Cold War we still need naval and air bases in the Mediterranean, but not necessarily in Spain, Italy, Greece, and Turkey. We should hold honest discussions with all four and see who wants us in and who out — and, politely and with tact, act accordingly.

Given the antics of Belgium with its wild criminal courts and anti-American rhetoric, it is a cruel joke to house NATO in Brussels. Better to move the headquarters to Warsaw or perhaps Rome. France should decide whether it is in or out of the alliance, but it can no longer be both. They, not we, have nearly destroyed NATO by abusing their own quasi-relationship, and that too must end. They will soon see that the end of the Soviet Union gives us as many options within NATO as it provides them. So as the alliance wanes — and all such leagues do, without common enemies — we should carefully establish bilateral relationships with those Europeans who know something of the history of the 20th century. It might be wise also to lift all quotas on skilled Europeans who wish expedited American citizenship — both for our own good, and to discover how many talented people might prefer leaving a creeping socialism.

Reform at the U.N. should be a centerpiece of our new policy. There is no reason why a billion people of a nuclear, democratic India, an increasingly confident Japan, or a vast country like Brazil should not be represented as permanent members of the Security Council. In addition, we must move to require democratic government for participation in the General Assembly; it makes no sense to give despots the privileges they don’t extend even to their own people. Let the U.N. become an assembly of free peoples, and allow Libya, Syria, North Korea, and Cuba to form their own United Tyrannies.[...]