Former presidential contender decries Democrats' 'huge missed opportunity' to hammer Trump on foreign policy

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Former presidential contender decries Democrats' 'huge missed opportunity' to hammer Trump on foreign policy by alexnazaryan

WASHINGTON — Shortly before the Democratic debate began in Atlanta Wednesday night, international relations scholar Stephen Wertheim tweeted a prediction. “Tonight I look forward to the usual five to ten minutes of debate on foreign policy by the most powerful nation on earth, with roughly 200,000 troops deployed overseas,” he wrote.

Moulton instead hosted a fundraiser at Lost and Found, a downtown Washington bar, for his political action committee, which supports candidates for public office with military and foreign service experience . The room was crowded with a young, diverse crowd that appeared to share Moulton’s conviction that the most powerful country on earth must always be vigilant about how it wields that power abroad.

“Everyone's talking about health care. Well, at the end of the day, Congress is going to decide health care — not the president." The same could be said of gun control, climate change and economic inequality, all issues that have by and large dominated the Democratic debates thus far. If these were, after all, within the purview of the president, Obama would have dealt with them definitively years ago.

“It's a huge missed opportunity,” Moulton said before the debate began. He added that it was “frustrating” that those Democrats failed to grasp that, in his estimation, Trump was most vulnerable as commander in chief of the military.“This is where Trump is most vulnerable,” Moulton said. “This is where he has failed the worst. That's why the impeachment inquiry is all about foreign policy.

 

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