Most people are realizing that the likely nominees from the major parties this election are going to be Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Bernie Sanders has big problems from a peace-voter’s perspective, but he was probably the least hawkish of the major candidates. He decided to concentrate on areas the Democratic base is more concerned about such as keeping the spigot on, and in some cases opening up more spigots. Somebody like Dennis Kucinich would have dismantled Clinton on all fronts if he was running head to head, but that’s another story… I would call Sanders a coward, but I just think he doesn’t care.
Clinton never saw an ill-advised entanglement she didn’t put her full support behind. She is calling for U.S. escalation in Syria, and regrets we hadn’t made life more difficult for its beleaguered citizens earlier. According to her, we should have armed the hand-picked militant religious fundamentalists earlier and transparently, and not through back channels and half-heartedly. She falls squarely into the bizarre cult of “Assad must go”, that disdains and heaps scorn upon anyone who seeks a practical end to the bloodshed.
She was the head cheerleader for intervention in Libya. She did everything she could to bring chaos to that region, including diseminate war propaganda. She repeated unsupported claims of dubious origin about mass rape by Qaddafi’s forces.
She and Victoria Nuland probably get along well. They both are NATO expansionists. A camp that probably represents the most dangerous threat to human life on Earth. They instigated an opaque coup in Ukraine, and now unnecessarily provoke the Russians. These people are absolutely insane. Russia represents no threat to the United States, just as Russia represents no threat to Switzerland, Ukraine, and Trinidad and Tobago. Russia seeks to enrich its oligarchs. They are much less dangerous than our oligarchs because they lack Wilsonian ideology. The NATO expansionist are itching to install a friendly regime in Russia.
She was wrong about Iraq when it mattered.
Trump was right about Iraq when it mattered.
Trump refuses to demonize Putin and even hints that they would be able to talk to eachother. An absolutely courageous stance to take in today’s Russophobic media and political climate.(Sanders demonizes Putin but claims to be against NATO expansion).
Trump showed signs of being good on Syria, but recently has said he supports “safe zones”, a Clinton position.
How will you feel about voting for a warmonger when a viable alternative exists that would kill less innocent people? Does peace matter to you this election?