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RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 09:46 PM Jun 2015

Bernie has little foreign policy experience

Hillary, otoh, is experienced with foreign policy disasters.

As SoS, she oversaw the Libyan disaster, the Iraq disaster, the Syrian disaster.

Ukraine went to hell in a hand basket, Fukushima spread far and wide, China's expansion ramped up, all in the last few years.

Obama replaced her with Kerry, and Kerry has been like a fireman, running around putting out old flames.

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cloudbase

(5,532 posts)
7. Back when I was a young merchant marine officer,
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 10:08 PM
Jun 2015

I took a job as second engineer aboard a San Clemente class tanker. When I reported aboard,
the chief engineer asked me if I had any experience on that class of ship. When I told him I didn't, he said that was okay, at least I hadn't picked up any bad habits aboard others.

 

cali

(114,904 posts)
9. she supported the honduran military coup
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 11:02 PM
Jun 2015

But btw, Bernie has 25 years in Congress and thus FP experience

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
11. Libya was the worst disasters one of them
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 11:21 PM
Jun 2015

Iraq was but it depends on what the goal is of the regime change. Is the oil still nationalized in Libya? If not, then Obama accomplished what Reagan wanted to do so badly -- Syria was going to turn to turn into a disaster because Assad is a very brutal human rights violator and a remnant of colonizers choosing the minority to rule over the majority.

US foreign policy is corrupt.

 

Damansarajaya

(625 posts)
12. I think it's a little unfair to blame shit on Hillary . . .
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 11:28 PM
Jun 2015

but our problems right now aren't "foreign policy" anyway, so I agree with that.

jeff47

(26,549 posts)
19. More things have happened in Libya than the attack on our consulate.
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 03:48 AM
Jun 2015

She was the SoS when European nations bombed the place until Gaddafi was out of power. And claimed she wanted more of a US presence in that effort.

 

Emily Grierson

(34 posts)
15. Saying Bernie Sanders has little foreign policy experience is quite generous.
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 12:00 AM
Jun 2015

Comparing Senator Sander's foreign policy experience to Hillary Clinton's experience is like comparing diamonds to cubic zirconia.

 

NuclearDem

(16,184 posts)
18. Euromaidan started on November 21, 2013.
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 12:16 AM
Jun 2015

John Kerry was sworn in as SoS on February 1, 2013.

Clinton was not SoS for Euromaidan and the 2014 revolution.

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