Via Peter Strempel
Originally shared by ****
Even the most fanatical Bernie Bro has to admit their hero knows nothing about the real-life challenges a president faces when undermining established foreign governments. The tough truth is that no amount of high-minded rambling about free college tuition can put machine guns into the hands of juntas sympathetic to U.S. strategic goals.
Via Paul Heimann
John Hardy Developer 
Obvious workaround: hire an experienced Secretary of State to handle foreign affairs.
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Gotta question whether somebody like Reagan actually had much foreign policy experience
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Being the world hegemon actually doesn’t require that much expertise. Dubya famously didn’t know the difference between Sunnis and Shia before launching his invasion of Iraq. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/12/8/170606/-
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Because every other president for the last century has had that experience before starting, oh wait they didnt.
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Which raises the other question of what the president actually does apart from be a figurehead.
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They have some arbitrarily strong powers and others checked by Congress. They have the power of extrajudicial murder of non-US citizens but they can’t unilaterally declare war.Their main role however is to appoint judges and to grant pardons to themselves and their associates before leaving office.
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Sanders is at least as qualified as every Republican president since Truman on foreign policy, though Bill Clinton might arguably have been more qualified and Hillary Clinton has considerably more foreign experience. Experience doesn’t necessarily trump values and priorities, though. Either one is far less frightening at the helm than Trump or Cruz.
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