Would not humans, the earth, and the climate been better served if America had implemented a visionary foreign policy that had sent an additional, or first time, 10,000 Peace Corps volunteers to the troubled nations listed above. Wouldn't the following kinds of national service numbers, rather than those meager numbers in the preceding graph have made us safer?
Before it's
too late, shouldn't we build this bigger, bolder Peace Corps --- and more?
Shouldn't we build a volunteer American World Service Corps National Service program that incentivizes Americans to serve in already existing do-good platoons such as: Peace Corps, AmericaCorps, Habitat, Doctors Without Borders, Mercy Corps, Oxfam, TechnoServe, Heifer, Head Start, International Rescue Committee, Red Cross, state conservation corps, and local non-profits that you know are doing-good and that you know could do more if they had more full-time volunteers serving for a year or two?
Isn't it time to put down the headset and game set and do?
"And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
JFK, 1960 inaugural address
Here are some links to:
- The American World Service Corps Proposal that would build the Peace Corps Kennedy envisioned.
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