re: #138 Ming5000

WTF Salon. Tough read. Awkwardly crafted. I guess Salon is the hot-bed of the Regressive Left. I relate to it as much as I do to RedState.

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I’d love to live in a fantasy world where foreign policy matters were simple or could be ignored, but they’re not and they can’t. And part of being a president is making decisions on foreign policy that somebody somewhere will criticize you for for the rest of your life. Seriously, the Berniebro model for a progressive presidency is FDR, a man who led America through most of the build-up and early years of WWII. And the man who resided in the White House during that period of American history they like to point at as proof that high taxes don’t destroy the economy? He was a Republican who’d served as Supreme Allied Commander in WWII.

This nation has not known a decade of uninterrupted peace since the 20th century. Part of being such a great nation is that you’re constantly on one side or another of a major foreign policy issue. Bernie’s not going to be able to ignore foreign policy just so he can devote his time to trying to herd cats in Congress.