Alexander on Foreign Policy
   From Campaign Literature, June, 1995

   American Engagement Abroad:
   
   Our guidelines governing intervention overseas need sharpening. The
   combat readiness of our armed forces must take automatic precedence
   over secondary missions. We are not the world's policeman and should
   not become one. American forces should participate sparingly in
   missions other than "combat" missions. American forces engaged in
   peacekeeping operations should remain under operation control of
   American commanders. Peacekeeping should be for places where there is
   peace, where parties have agreed to a cease fire. U.S. participation
   in UN peacekeeping mission should in most cases be limited to
   providing command and control, airlift and sealift, and logistical
   support.
   
   Foreign Policy Priorities:
   What do we need to do? (1) Stop the freefall in defense spending.
   President Bush would have cut defense 25-30 percent over 5 years.
   President Clinton's budget proposals are $25-50 billion below that.
   Defense spending in 1994 is 4.2 percent of the GDP, 18.9 percent of
   the federal budget, the lowest levels since 1940. We now spend more
   each year on interest on the national debt than on our nation's
   defense. (2) Recruit a new foreign policy/national security team. It
   is not unusual to have a president who doesn't know everything about
   the world. It is unusual to have one who doesn't seem to know anyone
   else who does. (3) No more zig-zagging. The Clinton "focus group
   presidency" squanders our prestige, confuses our friends.
   
   Military Intervention:
   When the Commander-in-Chief order U.S. troops into combat he should
   follow four principles: (1) Don't go in unless there is a clear
   national interest; (2) Don't go in unless you have more to back up
   your forces than you need; (3) Don't go in unless you and the American
   people have the stomach to see the mission all the way through; and
   (4) Know what the end will be.