Foreign Policy?

[JEB]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Hillary-s-Foreign-Policy--by-Stephen-Fox-Bernie-Sanders-Foreign-Policy_Foreign-Policy-Institute--Neocons_Henry-Kissinger_Hillary-Clinton-Foreign-Policy-160423-663.html

Many informative links and a must-see video at the link.

Is this the kind of Foreign Policy America truly wants its president to implement?

[djean111]

1. I don't think Hillary's supporters give a rat's ass about anything except Hillary being president.

Then, I guess, they can spend the next four years blaming stuff on the GOP.

[Trust Buster]

2. Sanders has zero experience at foreign policy. He would be a dangerous president IMO.

[think]

3. Bernie Sanders not only voted against the Iraq war he warned everyone of the consequences

Hillary voted for this war based on complete lies and helped push the lies that Saddam had WMDs.

That alone makes your claim seem pretty hollow.

[Trust Buster]

5. Sanders has no knowledge of foreign affairs. He's a disaster averted IMO.

[Octafish]

4. No more war, please.

If this was a Democracy, the 'round the world wars would be over same day as the election.

War, the Democratic Party and the 2016 elections

by Joseph Kishore
World Socialist Web Site, 23 April 2016

EXCERPT...

The Times article, “How Hillary Clinton became a Hawk,” written by White House correspondent Mark Landler, is not an exposé, but rather a sympathetic account of Clinton’s war credentials from a newspaper that has endorsed her and done everything it its power to ensure her nomination.

The timing of the article’s publication was clearly coordinated with the Clinton campaign itself. The Times held off publication of the lengthy article, evidently long in preparation, until after the New York Democratic primary, so as to preclude the piece stoking the widespread anti-war sentiment in that state and negatively impacting Clinton’s vote. It comes, moreover, as Clinton, shifting from the primaries to the general election contest, is eager to assert her right-wing credentials and win over sections of the military and corporate elite that are wary of the campaign of Republican front-runner Donald Trump.

The Times article presents Clinton as the consistent war hawk within the Obama administration, often butting heads with the president himself. She “backed Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s recommendation to send 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan [in 2009] before endorsing a fallback proposal of 30,000”; she “supported the Pentagon’s plan to leave behind a residual force of 10,000 to 20,000 American troops in Iraq”; and she “pressed for the United States to funnel arms to the rebels in Syria’s civil war,” later calling for a no-fly zone to be imposed against the Syrian government.

Whether it involved US military intervention in the Middle East and Central Asia, or provocations against China and Russia, Clinton invariably adopted the most right-wing positions. Clinton’s willingness to go to war, the Times writes, “will likely set her apart from the Republican candidates she meets in the general election.” The article continues, “For all their bluster about bombing the Islamic State into oblivion, neither Donald J. Trump nor Senator Ted Cruz of Texas have demonstrated anywhere near the appetite for military engagement abroad that Clinton has.” She is, Landler adds, the “last true hawk left in the race.”

Clinton, according to Landler, has worked for decades to develop close relationships with the military, seeking out ties with “not just civilian leaders like Gates, but also its high-ranking commanders, the men with medals.”

SNIP...

The Times article paints a portrait of an individual who operates with an incredible level of recklessness, driven by the narrowest and most cynical calculations as to what will benefit her political career. There is more than a whiff of Clair Underwood, the wife of the president in the fictional House of Cards series—though, if anything, Underwood is more discriminate in her conspiracies. Behind these political considerations, however, lies a commitment to use the military to assert US domination in every corner of the globe.

CONTINUED...

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/04/23/pers-a23.html

Thank you, JEB, for a most important OP and thread.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Robert McNamara and Henry Kissinger had oodles of foreign policy experience.

Along with Hillary.

Which is like saying that John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Baby Face Nelson had oodles of banking experience.