Reply #11: the same is echoed in DLC output: [View All]

“...it is, in the end, a relief to see the anti-globalization movement fade.
“This does not mean, of course, that the trade debate itself has ended in the US, or that future initiatives will move across entirely smooth waters.
“But the larger challenge the anti-globalization movement seemed to pose has clearly lost its force. As theatre, this may be a loss. As policy, it is the right result.”
—Edward Gresser, on the DLC’s New Democrats Online site

“Too many on the left seem incapable of taking America’s side in international disputes, reflexively oppose the use of force, and begrudge the resources required to keep our military strong. Viewing multilateralism as an end in itself, they lose sight of goals, such as fighting terrorism or ending gross human rights abuses, which sometimes require us to act—if need be outside a sometimes ineffectual United Nations. And too many adopt an anti-globalization posture that would not only erode our own prosperity but also consign billions of the world’s neediest people to grinding poverty. However troubling the Bush record, the pacifist and protectionist left offers no credible alternative.
“Progressive internationalism stresses the responsibilities that come with our enormous power: to use force with restraint but not to hesitate to use it when necessary, to show what the Declaration of Independence called ‘a decent respect for the opinions of mankind,’ to exercise leadership primarily through persuasion rather than coercion, to reduce human suffering where we can, and to create alliances and international institutions committed to upholding a decent world order. We must return to four core principles that have long defined the Democratic Party’s tradition of tough-minded internationalism: (national strength, liberal democracy, free enterprise, and world leadership.)”
—Ronald Brownstein, “Progressive Internationalism,” the DLC’s New Democrats Online


And these repellent PNAC/Republican-not-even-lite Quislings and their bootlickers say that they and only they can save the Democratic party from "oblivion" (funny how they've been in charge the past years)