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Buttigieg's foreign policy: Isolate dictators, resist military action
https://www.axios.com/pete-buttigieg-2020-foreign-policy-speech-c74f954a-35d1-48cc-8eb3-c7569b464100.htmlDave Lawler
1 hour ago
Buttigieg's foreign policy: Isolate dictators, resist military action
2020 Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg would bring the U.S. back into the Iran nuclear deal, rejoin the Paris climate accord and wouldn't currently consider military force in Iran or Venezuela.
The backdrop: Buttigieg, who currently sits around 4th or 5th in most polls, gave his first foreign policy speech today at Indiana University. He said as president he would isolate dictators, prioritize international cooperation particularly on climate change and have a "high bar" for military intervention.
Buttigieg criticized Trump's "erratic" foreign policy, but added: "For the better part of my lifetime, it has been hard to identify a consistent foreign policy of the Democratic party either."
He said U.S. foreign policy wasn't oriented toward threats of the future, noting that the current budget allocates as much money for three submarines as all cyber defenses.
Buttigieg, an Afghanistan veteran, called on Congress to revoke the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF), which has since been used to justify military action all over the world.
1 hot quote: "You will not see me exchanging love letters on White House letterhead with a brutal dictator who starves and murders his own people."
Buttigieg, an Afghanistan veteran, called on Congress to revoke the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF), which has since been used to justify military action all over the world.
1 hot quote: "You will not see me exchanging love letters on White House letterhead with a brutal dictator who starves and murders his own people."
The bottom line: Buttigieg presented American values as central to projecting power around the world and offering an appealing contrast to China.
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Buttigieg's foreign policy: Isolate dictators, resist military action (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jun 2019
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Buttigieg seems to me to be able to figure out things that few others figure out
mtnsnake
Jun 2019
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mtnsnake
(22,236 posts)1. Buttigieg seems to me to be able to figure out things that few others figure out
so easily as he does.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,614 posts)2. Buttigieg gives us the chance to return to sanity in our government.
I agree with his positions.
Let's see the other candidates step up to these too.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
TheRealNorth
(9,481 posts)3. Isolation
Is he going to isolate right-wing dictators too. Or just those that don't allow our 1%rs to go in and own everything? I was just reading about the recent political oppression in Sudan and apparently that's okay with Trump and Co (And is little reported in the media) because now Saudi Arabia has a partner in Sudan.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided