Suzanne Nossel in The Huffington Post: “This past week I joined a couple of progressive brainstorming sessions discussing the new foreign policy ideas that can help us out of the hole. Oftentimes the question of creating a “Community of Democracies” as a caucus at the UN and a forum for building international consensus is raised. (I’m now on a flight to Asia hoping to post when I arrive and to be asleep before I can put in all the links, but google “community of democracies” and you’ll get the background you need.
Democracy Arsenal’s Mort Halperin and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright have been championing this idea for a decade or more. Ivo Daalder and others at http://www.tpmcafe.com’s America Abroad have talked about it more recently). While the proposal has merit, it won’t work either politically or policywise as the centerpiece of new progressive thinking, and here’s why…”