WE THE PEOPLE IS NOT JUST A NATIONAL SECURITY IMPERATIVE

This is really all inclusive.

Ms Power's list of those to whom the State Department should reach out is not inclusive enough:

 "This should include building relationships not only with well-known civil society organizations," she writes,  "but also with groups like teachers’ associations, workers’ unions, and leaders in the business community—and not only with the vocal majorities, but with the minorities who are harder to find and hear. This kind of engagement demands a greater investment in our diplomatic efforts at a time when many governments—including the United States—are facing significant pressure to scale back the resources they dedicate to investments overseas, and to cloister diplomats in fortress-like embassies in the parts of the world where such local connections are actually needed most. So leaders must make the case to the public not only for why we cannot isolate ourselves from these problems, but also why we must widen the scope of our diplomatic engagement as a national security imperative." 

To really be a thoroughgoing Americanist Democratic engagement initiative, it needs to include the minorities, but also the poor, illiterate, beggars, refugees, exiles, and criminals, everywhere, for these are also the people.

"They don't really know, to tell the truth, what an 

ambassador is for...." Kennan