There is a scene in “The Godfather” in which the heads of the five families meet to broker a truce to an ongoing gang war that, to me, serves as a paradigm for the conduct of international relations. Like it or not, the world outside is full of thugs, and relations among them are frequently conducted at the intellectual level of schoolyard bullies.
I thought of this as I listened to Sanders go into a left-wing rant about Henry Kissinger that would have been fresh material 40 years ago during last night’s debate. The single most important task for our next President is not to wage war on Wall Street, but to keep us safe from people like Putin. Can you imagine Sanders standing toe-to-toe with Putin, and making him back down? Can you imagine him even caring enough about anything happening outside our borders to try?
Me, neither.