Bernie Sanders continued to argue that from Iraq to Libya, regime change remained an important difference he had with Hillary Clinton.
As the two debated foreign policy Sanders said that the point of foreign policy is not to know that you can overthrow a dictator, but knowing “what to do the day after.”
“As secretary of State for four years, you have a bit of experience one would imagine,” Sanders said of Clinton. “But judgment matters as well. She and I looked at the same information from the Bush administration regarding Iraq, I led the opposition against it, she voted for it.”
He added, “But more importantly about this Libya resolution that you’ve noted before, this was a virtually unanimous consent everybody voted for it to see Libya move to democracy, of course we all wanted to do that. That is very different than talking about specific action for regime change, which I did not support.”
Clinton countered that Sanders had voted for regime change in the past himself and that his 2002 Iraq war vote wasn’t an anti-Islamic State strategy in 2016.
