If we just look at the reality in the world and at U.S. politics on a factual basis, Bernie Sanders is the best chance we have had in this country, perhaps ever, and certainly since Jesse Jackson ran for the Democratic nomination, to have a president who truly represents a forceful rejection of many of the core tenets of U.S. imperialism. A U.S. president who up opens the possibility of radically shifting away some extremely deadly, imperial policies. The idea of electing a president who is not beholden to corporate interests has been a pipe dream in American politics. The whole system is bought and paid for by corporations. But Sanders is trying to buck that system. At the same time, Bernie Sanders should confront his own role in these 29 years of war against Iraq and own it, explain it, and in my opinion, acknowledge he was wrong to support the economic sanctions and regime change, as he has admirably done in the case of his 2001 vote for the Authorization of the Use of Military Force after 9/11.
jeremy scahill,
intercepted