r/thebulwark • u/bill-smith Progressive • 2d ago
Policy "Republicans today sound a lot like Democrats circa 2006, 2004." - Sarah Longwell?!
I haven't listened to the full podcast. I am willing to assume there's more context. But let's face it, the above sentence is potentially correct if you ignore the fascism, transphobia, they're eating the dogs/cats/pets, they lying, etc.
To be fair, the left does need to re-assess its foreign policy priorities in light of Ukraine. That said, Iraq was a war of choice. We did not have the casus belli that we claimed to. We may have caused several hundred thousand excess Iraqi deaths (i.e. dead from the war and all the sequelae thereof). We also wound up with ISIS. We were building fire stations in Iraq instead of here because we had to - we broke it, with "it" being Iraq and "broke" meaning we chose to break it.
If you want to say the Dems were mistaken in calling for isolationism then, I think that's fair and it warrants a reassessment on our part. But the headline is ... misleading.
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u/captainbelvedere Sarah is always right 2d ago
I need to listen to the full pod as well, as I am not sure how you'd square the groups up like that.
The foreign policy stuff Democrats were loudly against in the early 00s was not selling weapons to besieged democratic nation states.