Monday, June 27, 2016

So Much for Bernie's Input on the Party Platform

I visited this earlier, but here's a little more.
Hillary Clinton is not President Obama when it comes to foreign policy, her defenders argue. She does not travel around the globe bemoaning America’s past sins. She derides the notion — held by both Donald Trump and Obama — that we are burdened by “free riders,” namely allies. She speaks forthrightly about America’s leadership in the world, does not think Islamist terrorism is a figment of our imagination goosed up by cable TV and was opposed to a policy of indifference that allowed the humanitarian and geopolitical disaster to unfold in Syria.

  WaPo
Indifference? CIA and Pentagon programs training and backing "moderate" rebels is indifference?
Clinton would return to the bipartisan, pro-Israel stance — albeit with a dose of unrealism about a two-state solution — in place before the Obama presidency.

Moreover, the platform for the first time condemns the BDS movement. The Jerusalem Post reports: “The party will also recommit itself to maintaining Israel’s qualitative military edge in the region and ‘oppose any effort to delegitimize Israel, including at the United Nations or through the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement.'”
How long before it will be illegal to boycott or divest from Israel?

.....but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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