Bernie Sanders: The War on Terror Has Been a Disaster for the American People

[Donkees]

09.20.17 9:00 PM ET

Excerpt:

“The Global War on Terror has been a disaster for the American people and for American leadership,” Sanders will say Thursday in perhaps his biggest foreign-policy speech to date, according to an excerpt seen by The Daily Beast.

Sanders also intends in his speech to go after Vladimir Putin “by name,” an aide said.

At the heart of Sanders’ speech will be a full-throated defense of Barack Obama’s signature diplomatic achievement, currently under threat from Donald Trump: the Iran deal.

With Trump flirting at the United Nations with pulling out of the deal—and his administration already having laid the groundwork for that ahead of a critical October recertification—“this speech is partially intended to sound the alarm,” a Sanders aide told The Daily Beast. “It’ll also underline the necessity of defending this deal against a faction in Washington trying to destroy it.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/bernie-sanders-the-war-on-terror-has-been-a-disaster-for-the-american-people

[guillaumeb]

1. Also from the article:

“He’s saying that it’s important for the U.S., even as it recognizes it’s sometimes done poorly in the past, to be out there waving the flag of human rights, human dignity, democracy and for all people having the right to a decent life for them and their kids,” the aide said.

Difficult to do all of these things when one is also conducting military actions in many countries.

[Turbineguy]

2. We reacted just how they wanted us to react.