In last week’s Townhall event, Bernie Sanders make the critical distinction between “judgment and experience” when it comes to Foreign Policy — claiming he had one, in spades, and that he could assemble the other:
SANDERS: Well, I think because she has a great deal of experience. She was secretary of state of our country for four years.
But I would say, Anderson, that the key foreign policy vote in modern American history was whether or not we should go into Iraq. And Secretary Clinton was in the Senate then, I was in the House then.
We both listened to the same evidence. I made the decision, which I think history will conclude was the right decision, not to go to war. And if people want to go to my Web site, berniesanders.com, check out what I said in 2002.
And it gives me no -- no joy at all to say that much of what I feared would happen did, in fact, happen in terms of the destabilization of the region.
So I think in terms of foreign policy, I have the judgment. We've been all over this world, met with foreign leaders. And I am confident that we can assemble a team that would do a great job.
Kind sounds like the approach President Obama took, to be “Ready on Day One.”