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Bernie: No US embassy in Tehran. (Original Post)
ucrdem
Jan 2016
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He doesn't have to have a different position on every single thing.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Jan 2016
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,681 posts)1. He doesn't have to have a different position on every single thing.
It's premature to re-open an embassy in Tehran but that doesn't mean there shouldn't be any diplomatic relations at all.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)7. I'm not getting the sense that his foreign policy is less hawkish than Hillary's
But she seems to know a lot more about it.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)2. Holy cow his first priority is destroying ISIS, second getting rid of Asad
How is THAT better than Hillary??
jfern
(5,204 posts)3. He's not unconditionally going to open an embassy
But it'll sure be more likely than under Hillary.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)4. He also called Assad a butcher who gassed his own people.
That's straight-up neocon boilerplate. Has he studied the issue at all? His answers are way too simplistic.
jfern
(5,204 posts)6. Well, he's certainly less of a hawk than Hillary
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)8. I'm not hearing that at all.
Assad a butcher who gasses his own people? did he get that from dick Cheney?
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)5. not immediately
But in the future,
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)9. It's not just the embassy but his whole approach sounds at least as hawkish & punitive as Hillary's.
I thought FP was one of his selling points?