Democrats are often bashed...fairly or unfairly...as being weak on foreign policy. I'm not going to get into that debate, but let's just state for the record that there is more to being "strong" on foreign policy than wanting to bomb the hell out of people hehe. There is more to foreign policy than wanting to maintain an American Empire at the expense of the rest of the world.
But as Progressives, what kind of foreign policy should we be pursuing? How do we project our progressive ideals onto the world stage, in a coherent and moral way? I would suggest that at the end of the day, our foreign policy can be advanced without making us a diseased, pariah state, hated by the rest of the world. I humbly offer these guidelines:
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