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

[99th_Monkey]

Sanders to Clinton: Yes, Trump's Foreign Policy Ideas Are Scary. But So Are Yours
'We need a foreign policy based on building coalitions... [not] perpetual warfare in the Middle East'
by Nadia Prupis * June 03, 2016 * Common Dreams

Bernie Sanders responded to Hillary Clinton's foreign policy speech on Thursday with a hit at her credentials, including her involvement in the Iraq War and so-called "regime change" in Libya.

"We need a foreign policy based on building coalitions and making certain that the brave American men and women in our military do not get bogged down in perpetual warfare in the Middle East," he said in a statement. "That's what I will fight for as president."

Earlier Thursday, Clinton gave a speech that laid out her own foreign policy agenda and criticized presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump for his "thin skin" and "dangerously incoherent" ideas.

"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.

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/06/03/sanders-clinton-yes-trumps-foreign-policy-ideas-are-scary-so-are-yours

[SFnomad]

1. Keep this crap up and see how much the DNC accommodates BS at the convention n/t

[Dawgs]

2. By "crap" do you mean facts and truth?

If not, where is the OP wrong?

[Jitter65]

42. You are talking about the past. What has she said about her foreign policy that scares you now?

She has learned from past mistakes but is knowledgeable enough and stable enough to make tough decisions in the future. Trump is scary for what he says he would do going forward. That's what we should be judging Hillary on what she plans on doing going forward. Most of the military brass agree with what she has proposed recently and her suggestion for a no-fly zone, and early help for Syrian rebels was what most in Congress agreed with too. The President decided against that so it never happened.

Deal with the present and who we need to elect going forward not backward.

[rateyes]

4. Got news for you. Bernie and his supporters,

including me, aren't looking for the DNC to "accommodate" us. We are going to take the DNC over, or take it down and build a better organization in its place, regardless of how long it takes. We don't want reform. We want (and will get) revolution. The Establishment's days are numbered. Time is on OUR side.

[SFnomad]

6. Delusions of grandeur n/t

[rateyes]

7. No, a political reality.

[Blanks]

26. Mega delusions of grandeur. eom

[rateyes]

31. Mega dose of reality. Forewarned is forearmed.

[geek tragedy]

16. okay, so no speaking spot for Bernie at the convention,

he can just give his stump speech at the rally

[AgingAmerican]

18. Good luck with that

[rateyes]

19. Fine. Think that will keep his delegates "in line"

and silent?

[geek tragedy]

21. they can throw loud temper tantrums if they want

but their votes don't count more than people who act like adults

Democracy works by voting, not shouting. doxxing, death threats etc.

[rateyes]

30. Who said anything about death threats? And you

can consult the founders about what we should do when people acting like tyrants try to silence the people.

[geek tragedy]

32. Nevada involved death threats.

It's not tyranny for the side that wins the voting to be in charge. That's called democracy.

there is no hecklers' veto in a democracy

[rateyes]

33. Oh I am sure that the voting will be civil. But

the party best not run the convention the way the Nevada convention was run, or it will get loud and boisterous.

[geek tragedy]

36. everything will be done in a highly disciplined and orderly way, strictly

adhering to the rules

the whole thing will very much be scripted and planned to the minute

there's just not that much voting that occurs. it's mostly an infomercial to promote the nominee

[AgingAmerican]

41. And pigs can fly

[AgingAmerican]

35. Brockpuppets, no doubt

Your anger is getting the best of you

[AgingAmerican]

34. Hillary's supporters are to GOTV as Garlic is to Vampires

[AgingAmerican]

17. Facts are to Hillary supporters as garlic is to vampires

[Bjornsdotter]

27. Yeah, because the DNC

...is checking in daily to see what posters are saying on DU.

[ThePhilosopher04]

37. Truth hurts Hillary fan.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. she actually scares me more

Trump is so nuts that his actions will be blocked by the members of both parties.
The republican party agrees with most of her hawkish policies, so there will only be a few dems to stand up against the next war.

[99th_Monkey]

5. I dunno .. GWBush was crazy as a loon too,

but he still got Congress to invade the wrong country in retaliation for 9/11; and
Clinton voted for it.

[madokie]

38. In little boots case

we had just come off of a LIHOP, MIHOP or actual Terrorist attack and that allowed him to be able to do what he and the Dick done. Which was destabilize the middle east like its not been in history leading up to that time. Plus the murder of possibly millions of innocent people and destroying a country. A country who was not a threat to us in anyones imagination.

[senz]

9. Same here. He's nutty nationalistic but she's imperialistic and enjoys mayhem.

We need better than either of them. We need someone thoughtful and sane who values life. We need Bernie Sanders.

[shanti]

14. what i believe

and it's just my 2 cents, is that hillary is, and has always been, the annointed one. the clintons are friends with the trumps. bill talked trump into joining the race, thinking that americans, both dem and rep, would reject him immediately and go to hillary. bernie enters and all hell breaks loose. i don't think trump really wants to be president, and if he IS elected, others will do the governing, just like raygun. anyway...

[findrskeep]

8. K & R nt

[Sheepshank]

10. It was just a matter of time before Bernie did the Dems=Reps crappola

thanks for finding the confirmation.

[99th_Monkey]

23. If it were not so true, it would be so much easier to ignore. n/t

It's not so much "dems" though, it's the 3rd Way interlopers that are the problem.

[Sheepshank]

40. uh huh

[Ichingcarpenter]

11. Clinton had touted the intervention in Libya as “smart power at its best,”

Clinton had touted the intervention in Libya as “smart power at its best,” Before the total shit came down and went to hell.

In her book tough choices


SMART POWER AT ITS BEST...

think about that.

[madokie]

39. And if that won't stop someone dead in their tracks

they can't be stopped. Simple as that.

Go Bernie Go. We need him more and more as each day passes. He'll be our next President I'm convinced.
As the man said early on 'Don't underestimate me' I will not underestimate him

[uponit7771]

12. Sanders has 1 thing too much in common with tRump

[Bill USA]

13. isolationism is not really a feasible foreign policy for the most powerful nation in the World.

[99th_Monkey]

24. Coalition-building is the exact opposite of "isolationism"

but nice try.

[trudyco]

43. And different from Regime change.

[99th_Monkey]

44. +27

[Seeinghope]

20. Lying, deceitful, uninspiring flip flopper says what?

Has six more days to hope that the FBI doesn't indict her before the California Primry.

[geek tragedy]

22. 13 days, make 'em count nt

[Betty Karlson]

29. I'm with him.