{"id":10336,"date":"2012-03-04T11:18:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T16:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=10336"},"modified":"2012-03-04T11:18:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T16:18:35","slug":"elizabeth-warren-on-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/03\/04\/elizabeth-warren-on-foreign-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Warren on Foreign Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I am a big fan of Elizabeth Warren’s understanding of the plight of the middle-class, I was wondering what were her thoughts on other matters that might concern a U. S. Senator.<\/p>\n

Foreign policy might be one area where she could extend her fight for the little people against the giant predators.\u00a0 Unfortunately the United States is the giant in this case, and Warren does not give even a hint at knowing about the needs to rein in our predatory instincts.\u00a0 She actually seems to have fallen for and is promoting our worst propaganda.<\/p>\n

Being a Warren fan, perhaps I shouldn’t encourage you to read her web page on National Security \/ Foreign Policy<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 However, I don’t believe in hiding from reality.\u00a0 If she said it, you might as well know what she said.<\/p>\n

Iran is a significant threat to the United States and our allies.\u00a0 Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Iran could be a threat to the United States if we continue to pursue our saber rattling strategy and our sanctions against them without first having tried honest<\/strong> diplomacy.\u00a0 Despite what President Obama is saying in public, he knows our own intelligence agencies have said that they know of no proof that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons.\u00a0 I have posted a number of articles on this blog that report what our intelligence agencies really believe.<\/p>\n

This current wave of hysteria over Iran puts us in the same position the Bush war mongers got us into in Iraq before we started the war.\u00a0 In Iraq, we insisted that they had Weapons of Mass Destruction.\u00a0 Every time we inspected and found no WMD, we claimed that it was because they were hiding them.\u00a0 The more we couldn’t find any evidence of WMD, the more we insisted that it was because they were too devious.\u00a0 There was no way that Iraq could possibly do or say anything if we were going to insist that lack of evidence of WMD was proof that they were hiding WMD.\u00a0 It was a convenient heads I win, tails you lose situation that\u00a0 Bush set up so that he could have the war he so desperately wanted.<\/p>\n

Perhaps it is a shame on Bush that he deceived us (although it didn’t require much deception to have the masses fall into lockstep behind him.)\u00a0\u00a0 Who should we blame if the same forces deceive us again into fighting a needless war that will do nothing but help destroy our own country?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I am a big fan of Elizabeth Warren’s understanding of the plight of the middle-class, I was wondering what were her thoughts on other matters that might concern a U. S. Senator. Foreign policy might be one area where she could extend her fight for the little people against the giant predators.\u00a0 Unfortunately the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10337,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10336\/revisions\/10337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}