America's Foreign Policy & National Security Needs a facelift

Dr. Lamont Colucci has spent years studying foreign policy & diplomacy, and is on-call for America's foreign policy establishment!

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Dr. Lamont Colucci is a professor of international relations and national security at Ripon College. He has served in the Department of State, and his primary area of expertise is United States national security and United States foreign policy. Colucci is the coordinator for an interdisciplinary national security studies program and teaches courses on national security, foreign policy, intelligence, terrorism and international relations. He has undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a doctorate in politics from the University of London, England.

Dr. Colucci is well-informed and can contribute to the following issues:


What about Russia's attacks on Georgia?

"The attacks by Russia on the sovereign and democratic nation of Georgia illustrate the continued need for democratic values to guide foreign policy. The blatant aggression and continued support for the separatists against Georgia clearly demonstrate the cold realism of Russian foreign policy. The Russian advance beyond the city of Tskhinvali, into Georgia proper and attacks on places like Gori and Poti proves this no mere defense of the separatists. Russia was clearly sending a message to the Ukraine, Baltic and Central Asia that it will not tolerate anti-Russian and independent behavior. It further is an attempt to send a message to Washington about meddling in their sphere of influence. American foreign policy can not and should not tolerate such wanton aggression against an ally."

Our diplomacy with Iran

"Yes, Iran's defiant and continued development of nuclear materials is a threat to Israel and the entire region, and may someday be a threat to the United States, but Iran poses more immediate threats to American national interest - those that could fundamentally affect our economic stability, peace, prosperity, and those of our allies.

 

The United States cannot allow Iran to become a possessor of nuclear weapons under any circumstances. Thus, if the international community, economic sanctions, diplomacy and inspections fail to bring about civilized behavior from the Iranian theocracy, prevention and preemption will be the United States’ only option.

 

However, the main point needs to be hammered home; Iran is a theocratic radical dictatorship that uses the window dressing of democracy to fool the world while it continues its abhorrent activity at home and abroad. Cut down to the bare essentials, there are six critical areas of concern  (for more on Dr. Colucci's comments, Click Here)."

 

The full impact of the fuel crisis on National Security

The fuel crisis, petroleum in particular, is inherently a national security issue. A competent national security strategy and foreign policy towards the Middle East, OPEC, and Russia will produce clear gains in trade and commodities like oil. Further, there is nothing more salient to homeland security and thus national security than our energy needs at home, including offshore drilling and nuclear power.

 

Terrorism:

 

The United States counter terrorism strategy for the 21st century must reject the methods of the 20th century and embrace a two pronged strategy that is targeted and encapsulates a short and long term approach designed primarily to defeat the ideology that causes terrorism and not just the symptoms.

 

Three Issues the Media fails to acknowledge about the Global War on Terrorism

 

1.    It is a war. It is not a fight against the tactic of terrorism. We are at war. The war is both political and ideological. 

2.    The war will NOT be won on the home front or by stopping attacks on the homeland. The war can ONLY be won abroad.

3.    The war will last decades, not months or years.


Dr. Colucci is very media savvy and will be an excellent guest for news & talk programming, and his wealth of knowledge on today's issues will make him a repeat guest on these topics and a variety of others.


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