How Yemen crystallized Bernie Sanders's foreign policy message

[Uncle Joe]

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Then Naiman found Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA): an anti-Iraq War progressive who came into office in 2017. He was the grandson of a human rights activist and was an Obama organizer in 2008 but had never been a politician under Obama — and he would go on to endorse Bernie Sanders in 2016 and be his campaign surrogate in 2020.

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“Chris Matthews and he were talking about the overthrow of Patrice Lumumba in the [Democratic Republic of] Congo,” Khanna said. “Belgian colonialism was arguably the most cruel — crueler even than what my grandfather faced under the British. I thought if someone understands the history of Patrice Lumumba, they will stand up for human rights and a more just foreign policy.

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Sanders said he saw “an opportunity to bring together principled people from the right and the left.” But it was also an opportunity to translate his revolution to matters abroad. This time, his fight wasn’t against the CEOs in Silicon Valley or hedge fund managers on Wall Street; he’s talking about the oligarchs of the world, and the powerful people who prop them up.

For months leading up to his 2020 bid, Sanders has been laying out his vision for a progressive foreign policy. It’s one that sits directly in concert with his view of American politics. “We need an international movement that mobilizes behind a vision of shared prosperity, security, and dignity for all people,” he said at a December speech at Johns Hopkins University. As Vox’s Alex Ward put it, his thesis is that “income inequality and authoritarianism are intricately linked.”

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https://www.vox.com/2019/5/8/18525486/bernie-sanders-foreign-policy-2020-yemen-war-powers

[George II]

1. You do realize that it was Senator Chris Murphy who first brought this up in 2017, about a year....

....before Sanders ever mentioned it. The Yemen resolution was Murphy's. But Sanders is correct, he saw "an opportunity".

Come on, we can do better than this. Let's worry about getting the job done and doing the right thing, not looking for credit for it, please!

[Uncle Joe]

2. The OP is an analysis about how Bernie Sanders' foreign policy point of view is

intricately tied to and consistent with his longtime belief and message of wealth inequality here at home along with the danger it poses, as I bolded in my final two paragraphs.

Sanders said he saw “an opportunity to bring together principled people from the right and the left.” But it was also an opportunity to translate his revolution to matters abroad. This time, his fight wasn’t against the CEOs in Silicon Valley or hedge fund managers on Wall Street; he’s talking about the oligarchs of the world, and the powerful people who prop them up.

For months leading up to his 2020 bid, Sanders has been laying out his vision for a progressive foreign policy. It’s one that sits directly in concert with his view of American politics. “We need an international movement that mobilizes behind a vision of shared prosperity, security, and dignity for all people,” he said at a December speech at Johns Hopkins University. As Vox’s Alex Ward put it, his thesis is that “income inequality and authoritarianism are intricately linked.”

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https://www.vox.com/2019/5/8/18525486/bernie-sanders-foreign-policy-2020-yemen-war-powers

If you view this as credit, then great.