Sanders the Realist, Hillary the NeoCon

[amborin]

Sanders the ‘Realist’; Hillary the ‘Neocon’

February 24, 2016

Sanders could say, “yes, I’m a realist when it comes to foreign policy. I’m in line with early presidents – Washington, Adams, Jefferson – who warned about the dangers of foreign entanglements. While I believe America should lead in the world, it should not go ‘abroad in search of monsters to destroy,’ as John Quincy Adams wisely noted.

“I’m also in agreement with Dwight Eisenhower who warned about the dangers to the Republic from the Military-Industrial Complex – and I agree with John Kennedy who recognized the many legitimate concerns of Third World countries emerging from colonialism.

Sanders could note, too, that the other way to destroy a Republic is to use the secrecy stamp too liberally, to hide too many key facts from the American people, not because of legitimate national security concerns but because it’s easier to manipulate a public that is fed a steady diet of propaganda.....

On that point, Sanders might even note that he and Hillary Clinton may be in agreement, since the former Secretary of State’s team has complained that some of her infamous emails are now being classified retroactively in what her aides complain is an exercise in over-classification. Of course, the key reason for Clinton using a private server was to keep her communications hidden from later public scrutiny.

.....that the Democratic base is at least as ready for the truth about Hillary Clinton’s entanglement in the serial deceptions that have justified a host of U.S. imperial wars, including the current ones in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria....

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After all, Robert Kagan, who co-founded the neocon Project for the American Century, told The New York Times in 2014 that he hoped that his neocon views – which he now prefers to call “liberal interventionist” – would prevail in a possible Hillary Clinton administration.

Secretary of State Clinton named Kagan to one of her State Department advisory boards and promoted his wife, neocon Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland, who oversaw the provocative “regime change” in Ukraine in 2014.

The Times reported that Clinton “remains the vessel into which many interventionists are pouring their hopes” and quoted Kagan as saying: “I feel comfortable with her on foreign policy. … If she pursues a policy which we think she will pursue … it’s something that might have been called neocon, but clearly her supporters are not going to call it that; they are going to call it something else.”

https://consortiumnews.com/2016/02/24/sanders-the-realist-hillary-the-neocon/

[tk2kewl]

1. Similar article in The Nation recently

http://www.thenation.com/article/bernie-sanders-the-foreign-policy-realist-of-2016/

Enough with the neocons already

[hifiguy]

2. Neoliberal economics, imperialist neocon foreign policy.

Herself in a nutshell.

[SidDithers]

3. Parry. LOL...nt

Sid

[rbrnmw]

4. ...

[kgnu_fan]

5. kick

[dr60omg]

6. She is not only a neo-conservative in her embrace of war but a neo-liberal privatizing

her way through Wall Street at the expense of people and possibility