In his speech at the Clinton Global Initiative, Mitt Romney talks about "a new approach for a new era". The principles of this new approach sounds very much like what has already been at work in US foreign aid policy in the past decade.
Last week, delegates to the Republican National Committee went line-for-line through the GOP party platform. CSPAN recorded the whole thing. When it came to foreign assistance, the GOP establishment is not willing to let radical proposals undermine one basic tool of American foreign policy.