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20 Foreign Policy Experts Sign Letter Backing Sanders And Questioning Hillary Clinton's Record
Press Release
Foreign Policy Experts Back Sanders
April 14, 2016
NEW YORK – Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign on Thursday released a letter signed by 20 foreign policy experts backing Sanders’ judgment and questioning Secretary Hillary Clinton’s record on some of the biggest foreign policy questions of the last 15 years.
“Senator Sanders’ judgment is consistent with President Obama’s warning against the ‘Washington playbook’ of the ‘foreign policy establishment’ that overemphasizes military responses and leads to bad decisions,” the experts write. “Bernie Sanders is by far the most credible candidate to repair the economic and human foundations of American power.”
Citing her support of President Bush’s war in Iraq and her advocacy for intervention in Libya, the experts express concerns about Secretary Clinton’s judgment. “We are deeply concerned that Secretary Clinton has not fully learned the lessons from her mistaken support for the invasion of Iraq: dictators can be toppled, but unintended and often disastrous consequences must be fully considered before deciding to act,” the authors write.
To read the letter, click here:
https://go.berniesanders.com/page/-/website/FP%20Experts%20Suport%20Bernie-min.pdf
Signers of the Letter:
Lawrence Korb, former Assistant Secretary of Defense under President Reagan
Joseph Cirincione, Ploughshares Fund, President
James Zogby, American Arab Institute, President
Gordon Adams, American University, School of International Service (emeritus), and former Associate Director of National Security and International Affairs, Office of Management and Budget
Ian Hurd, Northwestern University, Department of Political Science
Sean Kay, Ohio Wesleyan University, Department of Politics and Government
Charlie Martel, former Counsel, U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee
Joseph Young, American University, School of International Service
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Northwestern University, Department of Political Science
Bruce Blair, Princeton University, Program on Science and Global Security, and Co-Founder, Global Zero
Stacey Philbrick Yadav, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Department of Political Science
Jeffery Sachs, the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Director
David Kang, University of Southern California, Center for International Studies
Daniel Nexon, Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service
Maria Repnikova, Georgia State University, Project for Advanced Research in Global Communication
Amanda Murdie, University of Missouri, Department of Political Science
Nadiya Kravets, Harvard University, Ukrainian Research Institute
Jeremy Menchik, Boston University, Pardee School of Global Studies
Stanley R. Sloan, Middlebury College, Department of Political Science, and former Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Western Europe, Central Intelligence Agency
Robert English, University of Southern California, School of International Relations
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