Nominee's Background:
Craig Eisendrath is presently a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and an adjunct professor at Temple University. With a widely varied career, he has been a diplomat, college dean, and director of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, as well as co-founder of the National Constitution Center. With a Harvard Ph.D., he has published books in philosophy, education and foreign affairs. His latest book (2004), co-written with Melvin A. Goodman is entitled "Bush League Diplomacy: How the Neoconservatives are Putting the World At Risk."
Nominating Speech:
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Nominated by: Diane Wittner
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Progressive Criteria:
The Defense Department will:
Recognize that as the most powerful country, the US must lead in international cooperation;
Instill and preserve a high level of compliance with all treaties such as the Geneva conventions;
Remember that the USA is a signatory of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;
Will not manage Defense as either a jobs or a corporate welfare program;
Work to restrain the international arms trade and reduce arms and nuclear proliferation;
In keeping with our desire for a world of law, will work to make sure that our armed forces get no preferential treatment such as immunity from the International Criminal Court or the land mines ban;
Strictly limit privatization and outsourcing of military duties.
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