Bernie Sanders Gives Foreign Policy Address to Westminster College

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[media]https://youtube.com/watch?v=RuiPFcGHQQc[/media]

Begins at 57:00

Bernie's tweets:
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• We need to begin a more vigorous debate about foreign policy. But we also need a broader understanding of what foreign policy is.

• Foreign policy is about 7,000 Americans killed in Iraq and Afghanistan and hundreds of thousands of those countries’ people dying.

• Foreign policy is about having a defense budget of ~$700 billion when we spend more on defense than the next 12 nations combined.

• If we are going to expound the virtues of democracy and justice abroad, we need to practice those values here at home.

• When people in America march as neo-Nazis or white supremacists, we can have no ambiguity in condemning everything they stand for.

• Six people own more wealth than half of the world’s population. There is no justification for that.

• Sensible foreign policy understands that climate change is a real threat, not a hoax, and that no country can combat it alone.

• When we talk about foreign policy, at the very top of our list of concerns is the need to revitalize American democracy.

• When the president spoke at the UN, he did not mention that Russia tried to undermine our democracy. Well, I will:

• I say to Mr. Putin: we will not allow you to undermine American democracy or democracies around the world.

• Dialogue cannot only take place between ministers and diplomats at the UN. It should be taking place at the grassroots level.

• It's reasonably easy to overthrow a government. It's far harder to know the long-term impact that that action will have.

• Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris agreement was incredibly foolish and short-sighted. And it will also hurt our economy.

• When we see demonstrations of white supremacy, we must be unequivocal in our condemnation, as our president shamefully was not.

• We cannot speak with the moral authority the world needs if we do not struggle to achieve the ideal we are holding out for others.

• The war on terror has caused us to undermine our own moral standards regarding torture, indefinite detention and the use of force.

• We must rethink the old Washington mindset that judges “seriousness” according to the willingness to use force.

• If we are concerned with Iran’s behavior in the region, as I am, the worst possible thing we could do is break the nuclear deal.

• The United States must seek partnerships not just between governments, but between peoples.
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[Faunze]

This did absolutely not start at 57:00. 1:13:00 if you want to skip the Jesus boner and long as intro.

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[QUOTE=Faunze;52704922]This did absolutely not start at 57:00. 1:13:00 if you want to skip the Jesus boner and long as intro.[/QUOTE]

Thanks!