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Message: [QUOTE="Yokel, post: 10566242, member: 6671"] Who was Henry Jackson? [MEDIA=twitter]1356261260992667649[/MEDIA] [URL='https://henryjacksonsociety.org/statement-of-principles/']Hanry Jackson Society - Statement of Principles [/URL] [LIST=1] [*]Believes that [B]modern liberal democracies[/B] set an example to which the rest of the world should aspire. [*]Supports a ‘forward strategy’ – involving diplomatic, economic, cultural, and/or political means — to assist those countries that are not yet liberal and democratic to become so. [*]Supports the maintenance of a strong military by the United Kingdom, the United States, the countries of the European Union and other democratic powers, armed with expeditionary capabilities with a global reach that can protect our homelands from strategic threats, forestall terrorist attacks and prevent genocide or massive ethnic cleansing. [*]Supports the necessary furtherance of European military modernisation and integration under British leadership, preferably within NATO. [*]Stresses the importance of unity between the world’s great democracies, represented by institutions such as NATO, the European Union and the OECD, amongst many others. [*][B]Believes that only modern liberal democratic states are truly legitimate; and that the political or human rights pronouncements of any international or regional organisation which admits[/B] undemocratic states lack the legitimacy to which they would be entitled if all their members were democracies. [*]Gives two cheers for capitalism.[B] There are limits to the market, which needs to serve the Democratic Community and should be reconciled to the environment.[/B] [*]Accepts that we have to set priorities and that sometimes we have to compromise, but insists that [B]we should never lose sight of our fundamental values. [/B]This means that alliances with repressive regimes can only be temporary. It also means a strong commitment to individual and civil liberties in democratic states, even and especially when we are under attack. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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