I got to sit in on a speech by Bill Clinton yesterday–I think it’s a rare privilege to be able to sit in an audience with any world leader, and this was truly memorable.
He spoke on many topics, but the one chunk that has stuck out the most was his take on our current administration’s foreign policy (I hope my anonymous reader leaves another comment about how I’m a raving liberal). Here’s the gist of what he said:
“All nations should work towards interdependence, not “Globalization” because that has a connotation of economic “Americanization.” And with that interdependence, we should be acting together in all things, and act alone only when we are forced to. The Bush administration has said to the world “We are going to act alone to do what we think is best, and we will work together with others only when we are forced to.”
That pretty much sums it up mates.
And now…just to prove that I did see him, I’m posting a crappy video from my cell phone. It’s wasn’t any particularly moving moment, just a random 30 seconds when I thought I should record this somehow.