Your first act should be to eliminate and forbid torture under any cercumstances. Then close the prison camp at Guantanimo. Make sure that all prisoners are released or actually charged with a crime. Those charged should be tried by due process under the constitution. A full investigation should hold responsible anybody who authorized mistreatment of prisoners. If war crimes are discovered, they should be prosecuted. [See Full Idea]
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The last 7 years have shown that we can not defeat terrorism through force. We must tackle the root causes of terrorism, which include poverty, war, oppression, lack of economic opportunities, lack of education, etc. Obama should empower the State Department and USAID, expand the Peace Corps, academic exchanges, and rebuild relationships with our allies. The US should work mulit-laterally through the UN and regional organizations to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict & stabilize Iraq. [See Full Idea]
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Pass pending Senate Bill H.R. 808 to establish a cabinet level Department of Peace, to assemble our most experienced and greatest minds in peacebuilding, & to fund & implement ideas for solving conflict before it escalates into violence. The 2007 budget for our Dept. of War (aka Defense) was $439,533,000,000; imagine the positive impact of those same dollars under a Dept. of Peace. We must implement a national strategy to end the global problem of violence. Learn how at www.thepeacealliance.org [See Full Idea]
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