Sorry Bernie Bros, Your Candidate Just Doesn’t Have The Foreign Policy Experience Necessary To

[Ichingcarpenter]

Sorry Bernie Bros, Your Candidate Just Doesn’t Have The Foreign Policy Experience Necessary To Prop Up A Pro-Western Dictatorship



Posted March 30, 2016


All election long, I’ve seen post after post from rabid “Bernie Bros” ecstatically trumpeting the enlightened policies of Senator Bernie Sanders. You can find them in every corner of the internet spewing impassioned diatribes against anybody who dares criticize their presidential candidate. Well, I’m sorry, Bernie Bros; it’s not working on me. Bernie has a couple nice economic pipe dreams, but he simply does not have the foreign policy experience necessary to prop up a pro-Western dictatorship.

Argue all you want, but the bottom line is that Sanders has repeatedly failed to demonstrate the deep grasp of international affairs that a president needs to install politically expedient totalitarian regimes abroad.

Sure, he can speak abstractly about international relations, but enabling the rise of the next Pinochet requires a lot more than abstractions. For that, you need actual diplomatic chops and hands-on experience supporting tyrannical despots, and that’s where Sanders would be way out of his depth.

I’m just being pragmatic here. Even the most fanatical Bernie Bro has to admit their hero knows nothing about the real-life challenges a president faces when undermining established foreign governments. The tough truth is that no amount of high-minded rambling about free college tuition can put machine guns into the hands of juntas sympathetic to U.S. strategic goals.










I suppose this is about the time when Bernie’s army piles on me for blaspheming against the almighty Sanders’ ability to support U.S.–friendly fascist regimes in strategically important nations. Before you take to your Twitter soapboxes, though, tell me this: Do you honestly believe that a single-issue candidate like Sanders understands the geopolitical complexities involved in turning a blind eye to the human rights abuses of the Saudi monarchy in exchange for economic and military advantages?

The tough truth is that no amount of high-minded rambling about free college tuition can put machine guns into the hands of juntas sympathetic to U.S. strategic goals.


I admire your dedication, Bernie Bros. I really do. But it’s time to admit that Sanders is a foreign policy flyweight who couldn’t facilitate a strategically convenient military coup for his life.

So again, I ask you: When it’s time to assassinate a democratically elected head of state who’s threatening American economic assets, is Bernie the guy you want in the Situation Room?

Look, at the end of the day, I understand where the Bernie Bros are coming from, and I agree with much of what Sanders has to say. But when all he does is harp on the economy without adding anything about abetting dictators in order to systematically crush all resistance to American influence, it really makes you wonder if he’s cut out for the job.

Whoever our next president is, they’ll have to strike a balance between addressing issues here at home and maintaining close ties with strategic dictatorships abroad. I don’t think Bernie Sanders has the foreign policy insight to strike that balance, and that’s why he’ll never have my vote, no matter how many of his supporters want to yell at me online.


http://www.clickhole.com/blogpost/sorry-bernie-bros-your-candidate-just-doesnt-have--4201


Good Satire but she should have signed it Henry Kissinger.

[Scuba]

1. Bernie's judgement over Hillary's experience is an easy call for me.

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. Russia is a bear you shouldn't poke too much

Clinton been more bellicose than any republican including the Donald with her saber wagging and threats. Iran is another example if you look at her statements. ............. maybe besides Henry Kissinger signature on that satire piece, Hillary should have co signed it.

[Scuba]

3. She's got the guy behind PNAC giving her advice. What's that tell you?

Not enough? Then add to that all the $$$ she gets from the MIC.

[nc4bo]

4. Coming from Camp SOS Let-Email-Fly-Free?! HAHAHA nt

[Jester Messiah]

5. Yeah, fucking up a job from hell to breakfast isn't what you'd call "experience."

I mean, if what Hillary's got counts as positive experience, she might as well pick Cheney or Rumsfeld for her veep slot.

[Triana]

6. Really. She voted for the invasion & occupation of Iraq which begat us ISIS

And he voted against it.

"Clickhole"s (how apropos) argument is invalid.

And bytheway, I'm not a "bro".

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. ITS SATIRE

AND GOOD SATIRE AT THAT

[Triana]

9. OK!

[denverbill]

8. That was pretty good. Glad I actually read your post instead of replying to the headline:).

I would quibble somewhat though. I don't think Hillary cares so much about regimes being US-friendly as she cares about them supporting neo-liberal economic policies, at least in terms of Central and South America. Then again maybe neo-liberal economic policies are required to be US-friendly these days.