Sanders to Clinton: Yes, Trump's Foreign Policy Ideas Are Scary. But So Are Yours

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Sanders to Clinton: Yes, Trump's Foreign Policy Ideas Are Scary. But So Are Yours
Nadia Prupis
Common Dreams

"Americans aren't just electing a president in November, we're choosing our next commander-in-chief, a person we count on to answer questions of war and peace, life and death," Clinton said. "The person the Republicans have nominated for president cannot do the job."

On that point, Sanders agreed.

However, he added, Clinton wasn't much better.

"I agree with Secretary Clinton that Donald Trump's foreign policy ideas are incredibly reckless and irresponsible," he said in his statement. "But when it comes to foreign policy, we cannot forget that Secretary Clinton voted for the war in Iraq, the worst foreign policy blunder in modern American history, and that she has been a proponent of regime change, as in Libya, without thinking through the consequences."

His comments fell in line with much of the progressive sector's response to Clinton's speech, which included criticism from journalists and policy experts such as Jeet Heer of The New Republic, Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept, and Sam Husseini of the Institute for Public Accuracy.

[Jester Messiah]

1. Damn right. n/t

[Thinkingabout]

2. So says Sanders who does not have a foreign policy and has voted more times

For military action than Hillary has.

[ThePhilosopher04]

4. Bullshit.

[Thinkingabout]

5. Don't like his voting record, it is a part of history, does not go away.

[ThePhilosopher04]

6. I love his record, that's why I support him. You distort his record

and you know this.

[Thinkingabout]

7. No, I am not distorting his record, denying his record does not change it.

Hearing him say Hillary voted for IWR does not change his voting record.

[ThePhilosopher04]

8. You know u are distorting it. That's what Hillarians do.

[Thinkingabout]

11. No, I am not in denial of his voting record, he just forgets to say he voted several times

For military action, wonder why he forgets this.

[onehandle]

3. THE END IS NIGH

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10135833

[democrattotheend]

9. This is basically how I feel

On domestic policy I think Hillary will do a good job if she is president. Not as liberal as I would like, but neither is Obama. I think Hillary has the experience and the relationships to be effective on the domestic side, even though she won't always do what progressives want.

But on foreign policy, some of her views and actions scare me. Don't get me wrong - I would much rather have Hillary with the nuclear launch codes than Donald Trump, because at least she knows what she's doing and is not unstable. But I am disturbed by the policies she advocated as SOS, particularly her push for the Libya intervention and her interference in Haiti and Honduras. I am not a complete anti-interventionist, but a lot of the things Hillary has said and done make me afraid that she will return us to being perceived as a world bully like we were under Bush, and I think that makes us less safe, not to mention the morality of it.

[AzDar]

10. Truth.

[bigwillq]

12. Kick (nt)