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Friday, September 18, 2015

The Republican Foreign Policy Consensus: Lunacy

by Robert Borosage

Republican presidential candidates Carly Fiorina, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Jeb Bush walk onstage at the Reagan Library on Sept. 16, 2015 in Simi Valley, Calif. (Photo: Getty Images)

Before turning on the Republican debate on Wednesday night, I had begun writing an article on Hillary Clinton’s alarmingly bellicose foreign policy ideas. But Hillary’s hawkish stance is a portrait of restraint in contrast to the adolescent muscle flexing and locker room taunts that mark the foreign policy exchanges of the Republican presidential contenders in their most recent debate.
The competitive bluster got so fierce that Donald “I am the most militaristic person” Trump turned out to be one of the least unhinged in the claque. After 14 years of costly, destabilizing war in the Middle East, these candidates pledge, you ain’t seen nothing yet. http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/18/republican-foreign-policy-consensus-lunacy?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=email_this&utm_source=email