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Washington and Warsaw must resist attempts to divide, marginalize,or undermine the NATO alliance, especially EU plans for a EuropeanArmy. In addition, Congress should include Poland in current plansto reform the Visa Waiver Program, and Poland and the United Statesshould continue to explore all options on ballistic missiledefense.
In an effort to create "one telephone line" to Europe, the EU's proposed Lisbon Treaty, successor to the European Constitution, would remove foreign policy from the intergovernmental sphere andmake it a supranational EU competence. An EU foreign policy will becharacterized by inaction, Franco-German dominance, and an attemptto limit American power.
Because the U.S. Coast Guard plays a central role in immigrationcontrol along America's U.S. coasts, its modernization programshould be a priority component of the Secure Border Initiative, andCongress should fully fund Coast Guard modernization programs toenhance homeland security.
The U.S. should publicly reaffirm that Taiwan's sovereignty isunsettled. Current U.S.-China relations make it impossible to declare that Taiwan is a state, but nothing justifies the U.S.bureaucracy's assertion that Taiwan is not a state. The Asiandemocracies' decision whether to balance or bandwagon with Chinawill be heavily influenced by how the United States defendsdemocratic Taiwan's international identity.
If Republicans take over one or both chambers of Congress, they should subpoena not just Twitter executives, but Andy Slavitt as well.