Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.
We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.
Like Canada, we very much wanted the United Nations to be a relevant and effective body. But once those efforts failed, we no longer saw things from a multilateral perspective. For us, now, it is much more basic than that. It is about family.
The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN.
The United Nations is an indispensable but deeply flawed organization. It is valuable to the United States, and the United States is invaluable to it. We need to reform it.
In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.
Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.
It is in all our interests that the arteries of global trade are kept free, open and running.