He cites a report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies that estimates that the number of Islamist terrorists has quadrupled since 9/11, and blames this growth on how the United States has conducted the war on terror. You may not be surprised to learn that the man who literally spent his honeymoon in the Soviet Union tends to blame America first. He doesn’t explain, because there cannot be a strategy in that part of the world without a military presence on hand to enforce it. However, Sanders doesn’t explain what that strategy would be, or how it could be enforced without military assets. He then moves on to Afghanistan, where he promises withdrawal and the creation of a diplomatic and political strategy in cooperation with allies to stabilize the region and prevent a repeat of 9/11. So perhaps this is not a widely held consensus opinion. Sanders begins his Foreign Policy piece by warning against going to war with Iran, which would be, he insists, “many times worse than the Iraq war.” To support this argument, Sanders cites “military leaders” and “security experts.” When he says “military leaders” he links to a 2009 Think Progress article written by his national security adviser, Matt Duss, in which there is a quote from former CENTCOM Commander Anthony Zinni. Since Sanders is one of a very small number of Americans who might become the next president, it’s worth understanding what, exactly, this vision is. This week, he published a more concise version of that speech in Foreign Affairs. Last year, he gave a speech at Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies. His senatorial record is stained by wrongheaded votes against overwhelmingly popular bills such as the Magnitsky Act and sanctions against Iran and Russia.Īnd yet, in spite of all this, Sanders seems to have something like a foreign policy vision. This is clearly a subject he has neither an interest in nor an understanding of, despite two and a half decades of service in Congress. Would it be all that…īernie Sanders is running for president again and because of that he has to talk about foreign policy every so often. Most GOP nominees running in the midterms are election deniers.
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