The use of NGO to shape perception and background items such as the Niger forgeries shows how this can always be misused no matter how we try to address it via policy.

At the same time we have more pressing humanitarian needs that can advance the perception of good intention and using those particular NGO such as the Red Cross and Red Crescent for that can serve great purpose.

Also, vetted NGO helping with relief can document activity of concern such as human trafficing or genocide, these items must also be addressed.

The ability to use NGO as a neutral avenue for relief items, and to also vet or help justify intervention, could be major policy aspects in coming years.

The echo/ essence of the humanistic globalism- that presently seems to a passive feature of the US-foreign policy- has to strongly projected via the threshold of the NGOs.

Pipers at the Gates of Dawn.

A new era is ushered upon us.

Joint training. Use military presence without having to be part of direct action. This provides deterrent, creates very good pressure, and accelerates actual deployments when used, not just within the region said training took place.

Ambassador Wilson notes the success in Haiti resutling from prior joint training in Africa with Operation Flintlock.

He and Jamerson took a joint approach. Diplomats of good experience paired with military attachments.

Instead we try and develop these joint efforts that enable us to create new movers in the SEATO, OAS, OAU(now the African Union) so if you have a force able to work with you from one group, under the UN umbrella it can be applied elsewhere.

This could be of much use in coming efforts. We're probably looking at a new era of containment policy to try and limit the influence of persons such as Chavez to couple with this force lever to stabilize some ethnic tensions.

Personally there's nothing to hold against Chavez of which I'm aware. He's our flavor of the month bad guy in this Hemisphere at this time, though. We don't want him forcibly removed or he'd already be gone. The wake of his departure who knows what would have been unleashed.

Oddly, Bushco. has made him stronger through the White House use of terrible fiscal policy and terrible energy policy, both of which enable him to greater influence in said areas.

In fact, Al Gore showed the way to peace, it is a path paved with renewable energy infrastructure. Something Obama's been very timid in addressing to any level of competence.

No shock there, his campaign director works for energy firms and Barack voted for Cheney's energy bill.So much for being the change candidate.

Now you see how important it is to unify policy so domestic items match what we need to accomplish as a member of the world community.

Community organizing of a different kind is what we need. World community, energy policy, address warming now or lose land and crops we can't afford to lose.

How many countries losing said items have military resources that will need help and joint training to address the chellenges these topics address?

*to address the challenges of these topic?

Gates should run for president in 2012 as an indi with the specific goal of pulling the foreign policy debate back into reality.