Video of Today's Foreign Policy Speech by Gov. Richardson at CSIS

You can watch video of Gov. Bill Richardson's major foreign policy address given today at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC at his presidential website. Here's the direct link to the video. (Photo left: AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Here's what the Washington Post is reporting. Excerpts:

"This administration's lack of realism has led us to a dangerous place. So America needs to take a different path -- a path based on reality, not unilateralist illusions."

... He also called for the United States to join the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on curbing such emissions "and then go well beyond it."

He said that would mean sacrifice to cut oil imports from 65 percent of fossil fuel use to 10 percent in 15 years. He said it would require a massive public and private investment in renewable technology and a drastic increase in automobile fuel economy standards. "This has to be led by a president," Richardson said.

... Richardson said other countries will not take the nuclear nonproliferation treaty seriously until the United States leads a global effort to reduce nuclear weapons, "including our own."

See my previous post on the speech.