Phyllis Bennis on US Foreign Policy

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Mon, 06/02/2014 - 12:00am
Phyllis Bennis on the stupidity of US foreign policy and the need for a Do No Harm paradigm.
Bill Resnick talks with Phyllis Bennis about recent US foreign policy and policy attitudes toward Syria, the Ukraine, China and more. They start by looking at Barack Obama's recent foreign policy speech wherein he responds to critics, and how he validates a strawman that equivocates military presence with troop numbers and avoids the failure of international military interventions. They consider "unconventional" approaches to warfare and how it fails people in occupied territories. Phyllis points out the clever way that money for contractors has been deceptively "cut" from military budgets and transfered effectively to the State department. They expose the inconsistency between Obama's position that there is no military solution in Syria and other war-torn countries and the fact that instead of troops we are sending weapons to Syria. Phyllis outlines a Do No Harm solution to conflicts and US foreign policy in general.

Phyllis Bennis directs the Internationalism project at the Institute for Policy Studies.
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