Outlining a vision of an America on the side of peace and justice, the senator shredded Trump’s brutish foreign policies.
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By John Nichols
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“What a rational and progressive foreign policy is about is building upon our common humanity. We must do everything we can to oppose the forces that try to divide us up and set us against each other.” -- Senator Bernie Sanders
The Nation’s John Nichols writes . . .
“The most meaningful foreign-policy address delivered by a prominent American political figure in this moment of global turmoil and possibility was not, as should be quite clear by now, Donald Trump’s “Rocket Man” rant at the United Nations.
“Rather, it was the speech that Senator Bernie Sanders gave Thursday at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. The long-planned address by the 2016 presidential contender was not presented as a formal response to Trump. And yet, as Sanders outlined a vision for foreign policy that was more nuanced, more complex, and more genuinely internationalist than that of the president, he provided the most necessary and valuable counter to Trump.
“Sanders also countered the narrow framework of the contemporary debate about foreign policy that gave rise to the nationalist presidency of a billionaire populist who thinks there is a country in Africa called ‘Nambia.’ ”
