Trump’s policies are incoherently bad, Clinton’s are coherently dangerous for war

“The person the Republicans have nominated for president cannot do the job. “On that point, Sanders agreed. However, he added, Clinton wasn’t much better.”

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Earlier Thursday, Clinton gave a speech that laid out her own foreign policy agenda and criticized presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump for his “thin skin” and “dangerously incoherent” ideas.

“Americans aren’t just electing a president in November, we’re choosing our next commander-in-chief, a person we count on to answer questions of war and peace, life and death,” Clinton said. “The person the Republicans have nominated for president cannot do the job.”

On that point, Sanders agreed.

However, he added, Clinton wasn’t much better.

“I agree with Secretary Clinton that Donald Trump’s foreign policy ideas are incredibly reckless and irresponsible,” he said in his statement. “But when it comes to foreign policy, we cannot forget that Secretary Clinton voted for the war in Iraq, the worst foreign policy blunder in modern American history, and that she has been a proponent of regime change, as in Libya, without thinking through the consequences.”

His comments fell in line with much of the progressive sector’s response to Clinton’s speech, which includedcriticism from journalists and policy experts such as Jeet Heer of The New Republic, Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept, and Sam Husseini of the Institute for Public Accuracy.

As Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of The Earth Institute and a steadfast critic of Clinton’s hawkish foreign policy record, tweeted after her Thursday speech:

https://twitter.com/JeffDSachs/status/738490919880654848

Source: Common Dreams.