How can Bernie ever hope to match the record of Hillary and her foreign policy advisers?
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/why-isnt-hillarys-hawkishness-a-dealbreaker/433887/Why Isn't Bernie Sanders's Superior Foreign-Policy Judgment a Decisive Edge?
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Let’s quickly review the consequences of the Iraq War that Hillary Clinton favored:
The rise of ISIS.
Hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis.
Roughly 4,500 dead American soldiers.
Tens of thousands of Americans wounded.
$6 trillion in costs.
Here’s what Sanders said when he presciently opposed that same war:
Mr. Speaker, in the brief time I have, let me give five reasons why I am opposed to giving the President a blank check to launch a unilateral invasion and occupation of Iraq and why I will vote against this resolution.
One, I have not heard any estimates of how many young American men and women might die in such a war or how many tens of thousands of women and children in Iraq might also be killed. As a caring Nation, we should do everything we can to prevent the horrible suffering that a war will cause. War must be the last recourse in international relations, not the first. Second, I am deeply concerned about the precedent that a unilateral invasion of Iraq could establish in terms of international law and the role of the United Nations. If President Bush believes that the U.S. can go to war at any time against any nation, what moral or legal objection could our government raise if another country chose to do the same thing?
Third, the United States is now involved in a very difficult war against international terrorism as we learned tragically on September 11. We are opposed by Osama bin Laden and religious fanatics who are prepared to engage in a kind of warfare that we have never experienced before. I agree with Brent Scowcroft, Republican former National Security Advisor for President George Bush, Sr., who stated, “An attack on Iraq at this time would seriously jeopardize, if not destroy, the global counterterrorist campaign we have undertaken.”
Fourth, at a time when this country has a $6 trillion national debt and a growing deficit, we should be clear that a war and a long-term American occupation ofIraq could be extremely expensive.
Fifth, I am concerned about the problems of so-called unintended consequences. Who will govern Iraq when Saddam Hussein is removed and what role will the U.S. play in ensuing a civil war that could develop in that country? Will moderate governments in the region who have large Islamic fundamentalist populations be overthrown and replaced by extremists? Will the bloody conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Authority be exacerbated? And these are just a few of the questions that remain unanswered.
This isn’t hard. Sanders has much better foreign-policy judgment than Hillary Clinton. You could hardly make up a more stark illustration. They were on different sides of the most consequential and disastrous war since Vietnam. Yet this difference is dismissed as if it amounts to no more than an afterthought in most comparisons.
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Russian Federation over Ukraine and the Crimea. Zbig's NeoLiberal Russophobic regime changers at State and the White House were chomping at the bit to get their war on. It fell to Kissinger to warn them that the RF was and is a world- and nuclear power with a legitimate sphere of influence. I still chuckle at the memory - Kissinger doing his part to avert global nuclear Armageddon. 
the Universe of homo sapiens is really such a bad idea after all.
The way the military contractors droolingly lined up to ride the gravy train, makes me wonder if this mess really was all that unintended. That's the really scary thing about those on both sides of the aisle that rushed in to support the invasion. Bernie was really the only one who knew?
The taxpayers paid to tear it down, and we paid to build it back up again: rinse and repeat. And the loss of life and limb on both sides...
OMG how could I have forgotten that?
She's Dick Cheney in a pantsuit. Her foreign policy proclivities scare the crap out of me and on that I oppose her candidacy vehemently.
was a Goldwater Girl, her idol was advocating nuking southeast Asians.
Oh it's more complicated than that, you wouldn't understand. 
The real picture of what happened to JFK seems to be painted into a large mosaic even. This other picture of how and who set up the WTC with the metal eating thermite and all those things with it is still a little foggy though. Without WTC none of that kabuki theater with invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq would have been possible. The inner circle of bush* did not posses the brain power for the WTC take-down so rhetorical how did it happen? (I get to keep searching )
To that, of course Bernie wouldn't have voted for any of that crap that bush* was doing in the aftermath but to him and guys like Sen. Welstone they were willing to be counted what ever the costs to them personalty. Cowering to it was and is a weakness
I hope the subject gets dragged out again.
Great, well-needed post.
