Half the Foreign Policy Experts Signing Clinton’s Anti-Sanders Letter Have Ties to Military Contract

[UglyGreed]

Hillary Clinton’s campaign released a letter this week in which 10 foreign policy experts criticized her opponent Bernie Sanders’ call for closer engagement with Iran and said Sanders had “not thought through these crucial national security issues that can have profound consequences for our security.”

The missive from the Clinton campaign was covered widely in the press, but what wasn’t disclosed in the coverage is that fully half of the former State Department officials and ambassadors who signed the letter, and who are now backing Clinton, are now enmeshed in the military contracting establishment, which has benefited tremendously from escalating violence around the world, particularly in the Middle East.

https://theintercept.com/2016/01/21/clinton-foreign-policy-experts/

[sabrina 1]

1. That's why that ridiculous letter was so obvious and had zero impact, if anything it HELPS

Bernie when people like this sign self serving letters to support the Corporate candidates. Hillary is TERRIBLE on Foreign Policy. She is part of the problem that now exists throughour the ME and if they think people are impressed with our policies, they need to climb out of that bubble they live in and go talk to ORDINARY people.

[FlatBaroque]

2. There is an absurdity to the Clinton candidacy that is difficult to describe

It is a caricature of absolutely every political illness of this society bundled up into one family. May there never, ever be another Clinton or Bush or Cheney in public life again.

[Betty Karlson]

3. Of course they have ties to military contractors!

Those are the only ones who stand to lose with Sanders. All other experts (diplomatic and military) would welcome a sane, restrained, multilateral effort like Sanders represents.

[UglyGreed]

4. Follow the

money

[dreamnightwind]

5. K & R, this should have many many recs

[UglyGreed]

6. Kick