Regular readers of this blog will recall a post from a few months ago in which I suggested a useful way to evaluate the foreign policy views of our leaders was to plot them on a graph with two intersecting lines: one running from active to passive; and the other from values to interests. President Obama clearly belongs in the passive/interests quadrant of the graph. Where would one put Clinton and Sanders?
Based on his voting record and his statements on the campaign trail, I would place Sanders in the passive/interests quadrant, but further down the passive line than the President. Clinton, on the other hand, is both more ideological and more open to military interventions than the President. I would plot her very close to the intersection of the two lines.