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Bernie Sanders ties Kissinger to the demise of American manufacturing
Bernie Sanders masterfully calls out Hillary Clinton for taking advice from Henry Kissinger then ties him to the middle-class demise. He showed the hypocrisy of the neocon policy that on one hand demonizes a foreign country and then for business reasons and on command from the corporate masters immediately sells out the soul of our country.
Bernie came prepared this time for a foreign policy exchange. He showed the negative results of neocon proclivities. He rightfully made Hillary Clinton a part of the establishment that plays chess with the lives of Americans.
Here is the text of the exchange.
Bernie Sanders: Where the secretary and I have a very profound difference, in the last debate — and I believe in her book — very good book, by the way — in her book and in this last debate, she talked about getting the approval or the support or the mentoring of Henry Kissinger. Now, I find it rather amazing, because I happen to believe that Henry Kissinger was one of the most destructive secretaries of state in the modern history of this country. I am proud to say that Henry Kissinger is not my friend. I will not take advice from Henry Kissinger. And in fact, Kissinger’s actions in Cambodia, when the United States bombed that country, overthrew Prince Sihanouk, created the instability for Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge to come in, who then butchered some 3 million innocent people, one of the worst genocides in the history of the world. So count me in as somebody who will not be listening to Henry Kissinger.
Hillary Clinton: Well, I know journalists have asked who you do listen to on foreign policy, and we have yet to know who that is.
Bernie Sanders: Well, it ain’t Henry Kissinger. That’s for sure.
Hillary Clinton: That’s fine. That’s fine. You know, I listen to a wide variety of voices that have expertise in various areas. I think it is fair to say, whatever the complaints that you want to make about him are, that with respect to China, one of the most challenging relationships we have, his opening up China and his ongoing relationships with the leaders of China is an incredibly useful relationship for the United States of America. So if we want to pick and choose — and I certainly do — people I listen to, people I don’t listen to, people I listen to for certain areas, then I think we have to be fair and look at the entire world, because it’s a big, complicated world out there.
Bernie Sanders: It is.
Hillary Clinton: And, yes, people we may disagree with on a number of things may have some insight, may have some relationships that are important for the president to understand in order to best protect the United States.
Bernie Sanders: I find — I mean, it’s just a very different, you know, historical perspective here. Kissinger was one of those people during the Vietnam era who talked about the domino theory. Not everybody remembers that. You do. I do. The domino theory, you know, if Vietnam goes, China, da, da, da, da, da, da, da. That’s what he talked about, the great threat of China. And then, after the war, this is the guy who, in fact, yes, you’re right, he opened up relations with China, and now pushed various type of trade agreements, resulting in American workers losing their jobs as corporations moved to China. The terrible, authoritarian, Communist dictatorship he warned us about, now he’s urging companies to shut down and move to China. Not my kind of guy.
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