15 Fundamental DIFFERENCES Between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton

[JDPriestly]

54. Yes. I suspected this, but did not know the facts.

Politics is partly storytelling. Mythmaking.

The Republicans are awful on the substance, on the policy. Their ideas in that area are full of holes, hold no water.

But they are great storytellers.

So I knew that the whole Benghazi affair was part of the telling of a story. And I figured it had to have to do with the attempt to unseat Assad in Syria. I have no sympathy for Assad, but there had to be a reason for the Republicans' making such a fuss over Benghazi.

They wanted voters to remember that word, "Benghazi."

I did not know that Gaddhafi had weapons stores that would be valuable to some rebel groups in the Middle East. I did not know that the CIA had a sort of warehouse in Benghazi for weapons. I did not know about the shipping company that Hersh mentions and that the Libyan Ambassador met with before being killed. I did not know any of those details, but I asked myself why in the world the Turkish ambassador and our ambassador would be meeting in Benghazi rather than in Tripoli, the capitol of Libya. And now we know. I figured the answer to my question would be associated with the transfer of weapons to Syrian rebels and that those weapons had found their way to the bad guys. I figured more recently that Saudi Arabia and Qatar had something to do with it.

The sale of gold to Iran and in that respect the possible circumvention of our ban on business with Iran is news to me. I don't know quite how that fits the rest of the story, but it also makes our current government look questionable in my opinion.

And I'm pretty much a big Obama fan when it comes to foreign policy. But it appears to me that some serious mistakes have been made -- and the Benghazi deal was during Hillary's time at the State Department.

Petraeus and Hillary both left their positions. I never thought that Petraeus' exit was really about his affair. That affair was probably known to many for a long time. That was an excuse in my opinion to get rid of a fool whose policies had failed. Hillary -- she was harder to deal with.

Hillary is intellectually and in terms of her strategic abilities, not qualified to be president. What's more she is stuck on herself, thinks she is smarter than she is (because she always memorized well and got good grades in school and also knows the right people) but the Republican candidates are even less qualified.

The only guy out there with the humility to listen to the right people and to ask the right questions especially when it comes to foreign and economic policies is Bernie. It's not that he has all the answers but that I think he will seek out the right experts and ask those right questions. He doesn't think he knows it all, especially when it comes to military and foreign policy.

Bernie's idea of seeking help from Saudi Arabia and Qatar is good because they are supporting one of the sets of bad guys in Syria. If we could provide incentives and get them to stop supporting the bad guys, the Syrian rebels, the ones who are destroying historical sites and killing people who don't agree with them, they would become very weak and eventually disappear as such a disruptive force in that area.

Bernie's idea of working with Russia is good as long as we carefully watch to make sure that Russia is really working with us and not serving an agenda that is hostile to us. Russia would love to see Turkey weakened. That's my suspicion. And Turkey has harmed itself by supporting these cruel rebels in Syria.

But still, we need Turkey as an ally. Russia would like to have more influence in Turkey. So we have to be careful about how close our alliance might be with Russia.

Now that Greece is so weak and alienated to some extent from Western Europe, the entire area of Southern Eastern Europe to the southern border of Turkey could, as has the Middle East, experienced a lot of change -- not all of it good for the US. That is an important area in the world. That's Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and the countries that used to be Yugoslavia. That is the northern portion of the Eastern crescent of the Mediterranean. Those countries are important from a strategic point of view even though most Americans don't hardly know they exist.

Anyway that is my take on these matters.

Hillary is a very weak candidate for many reasons.