2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumPutting a Hawk back in the WH makes me shudder. Let's face it, there's nothing underground about DU.
jfern
(5,204 posts)where Russian planes are flying? She even repeated that completely idiotic position in the last debate. That alone makes her completely unfit to be President and commander in chief.
dinkytron
(568 posts)morningfog
(18,115 posts)PBass
(1,537 posts)Bernie would also wield military power to protect American security interests abroad.
I would be curious to see the DU Bernie Group reaction, after President Sanders makes his first drone strike.
That Guy 888
(1,214 posts)Secretary Clinton is the type of feminist that believes that there should be some women sociopaths wielding power too.
jfern
(5,204 posts)dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)and recognizes that most of what we are "defending" against is blowback from our military's activities in everyone else's backyards.
He does say that he is not a pacifist, but he defines threats differently, more like I do. Wonderful to have such a candidate for once.
ThePhilosopher04
(1,732 posts)Imposing regime changes and forcing will on other countries so private corporations can loot is another.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Im underground here at DU
And so are You
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)No thanks.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)And if the Republicans hold the presidency, the house, and the senate, it will be the same.
Bernie is less hawkish than Hillary, but either of them would be less likely to put us in wars than Trump. I can't even imagine all the wars we'd end up in with him as president.
MattSh
(3,714 posts)Everything I see and hear about her convinces me she'd be the worst hawk in the White House in my lifetime. And I've been around quite a few decades.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)bigtree
(85,998 posts)...it's politics as usual. The politics of personal destruction.
Not very inspiring, at all.