Opinion: Candidates should heed this Democrat’s foreign policy warning
Sen. Chris Murphy during a news conference last week in Washington. By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer April 9 at 9:00 AM Politico reports on Sen. Chris Murphy who wisely encouraged Democrats to stop avoiding foreign policy:
President Trump’s foreign policy may be a mess, but unless Democrats make the case as to why he is a menace and present their own view, Democrats will miss a golden opportunity. Incidentally, Murphy lets on that he’s spent the most time on foreign policy issues with Sen. Kamala Harris about Syria, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. First, they don’t talk about national security much, which means they don’t build up a confidence level, which means they don’t talk about it.
Likewise, on human rights they might say, “By slobbering over foreign autocrats such as Abdel Fatah al-Sissi in Egypt, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Saudi Arabia and Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey, Trump encourages corruption, domestic oppression and attacks on American nationals . This contributes to their own instability. We should make clear that good relations with the United States depends in part on their respect for universal human rights.
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