When it comes to issues of war and peace, no 2020 Democratic presidential campaign is more impassioned or articulate than Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii. To be sure, other 2020 Democrats are beginning to speak out on war and peace issues. Elizabeth Warren seeks the mantle of JFK, the insider as reformer. Bernie Sanders puts...
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On the Eve of the Debates, a Guide to the 2020 Democrats on War and Peace
WHAT THEY SAY & WHAT THEY WOULD DO MICHAEL BENNET: The Senator from Colorado has been light on foreign policy, but stands with our allies and criticizes reckless military spending…..MORE ON BENNET JOE BIDEN: The former Vice President was among the more dovish of President Obama’s aides but he sees no need for fundamental reform...
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As U.S. Studies War Options, Venezuela Is Well-Armed
This Foreign Policy piece, “Venezuela is Armed to the Hilt,” written by two analysts from the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute, is based on the dubious premise that the Venezuelan armed forces are falling apart. The Trump administration and opposition leader Juan Guaido believed that key senior officers would abandon the government. They didn’t. Without significant...
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2020 Democrats Face the Challenge of ‘The Blob’
If a Democrat is elected president in November 2020, he or she will have two challenges: one global and one municipal. The first challenge will be how to run the worldwide $643 billion a year military empire of the United States, which surveils the planet while fighting four undeclared wars. The second challenge is much...
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Bolton Takes Control of Trump’s North Korea Policy
Joe Cirincione, chief of the disarmament group Ploughshares, has a cogent analysis of why the Hanoi summit of President Trump and North Korea leader Kim Jong-un failed. The opportunity, he notes, was this: In Hanoi, North Korea wanted to trade some of their nuclear capability for most of the sanctions. Trump offered some of the...