Bernie Sanders: Finally A Candidate With Common Sense Foreign Policy

[GoLeft TV]

We all know how consistently strong Bernie Sanders is in regards to economic and domestic policy, but one area that always seems to be overlooked is his common-sense approach on foreign policy.

Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins discuss this.

[Thinkingabout]

1. Does Papantonio know that Sanders votes for the defense contracts? What is he thinking.

Sanders pushes to have the F-35 program continue and also the drone programs, it makes money for the defense contractors. Sanders loves Lockheed Martin, they are the defense contractor who is trying to produce the F-35. Maybe Papantonio thinks we are not aware of Sanders votes to keep the F-35 program going. Well, we know.

[DhhD]

4. Senator Sanders did not vote for War in Iraq, but has the responsiblity of Congress to protect

our armed service members and Americans.


Bernie Sanders Official Government Site:
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/fraudulent-defense-contractors-paid-1-trillion

Same information:
http://thinkbynumbers.org/military/fraudulent-defense-contractors-paid-1-trillion/

Sanders is on several committees.
http://www.budget.senate.gov/democratic/public/

[Thinkingabout]

5. Sanders has voted for the F-35 program, it is over budget and experts says the plane would lose in

a dog fight, he also votes to keep the drones produced. He has said recently there is a need to reduce defense spending, he needs to take his advice and curb voting to keep Lockheed Martin in a contract where the product has not performed, just more defense spending welfare programs for defense corporations.

[JDPriestly]

6. I attended a Bernie speech in Los Angeles. I may be wrong, but I believe it was there that he

said that one of the first things he would do as president would be to audit the defense department.

I think he is serious about cutting defense spending but wants to do it based on an honest and thorough audit of where the money is going and where it would be best spent.

An audit is needed before specific cuts are made. I agree with Bernie.

Just cutting a specific program without viewing how that program fits into our entire defense plan would be unwise. The system needs review, not just particular parts of it. We need a truly formidable defense system. And I don't think that any president has undertaken the kind of audit that Bernie appears to have in mind.

Some of our intelligence money, it seems to me, could be more wisely spent. We clearly are not getting the right intelligence on ISIS. That's a big problem. And the intelligence expenditures are partly in our military budget.

[Thinkingabout]

8. He has not voted like this morning in the past, if he changes his direction

It would surprise me, like has been said before, Sanders does not change.

[gordyfl]

2. Bernie - Russia - Syria

Bernie had called Syria a "Quagmire within a quagmire".

In the CNN Debate the topic of Syria and Russia's involvement came up. There were a few moans coming from the audience when Bernie replied. Here it is...

SANDERS: Well, I think Mr. Putin is going to regret what he is doing. I think that when he gets into that...

COOPER: He doesn't seem to be the type of guy to regret a lot.

SANDERS: Well, I think he's already regretting what he did in Crimea and what he is doing in the Ukraine. I think he is really regretting the decline of his economy. And I think what he is trying to do now is save some face. But I think when Russians get killed in Syria and when he gets bogged down, I think the Russian people are going to give him a message that maybe they should come home, maybe they should start working with the United States to rectify the situation now.

Shortly after these words a Russian airliner was blown up leaving Egypt.

Recently a Russian plane was shot down by Turkey.

Stay tuned...

[JDPriestly]

7. Yes. Russia tried to go it alone in Afghanistan and left with its tail beneath its legs.

That will probably happen in Syria too.

Bernie is right. The struggle there is about the soul of the Muslim religion. Is it going to go back to become a medieval religion that holds the society in which it dominates back or is it going to become a religion that lives in the modern age. Time will tell.

Certainly, ISIS is a big step backward. But then Saudi Arabia lives in the past so it needs to move into the present.

[Enthusiast]

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