Sanders: ‘National security involves a lot more than bombs’

“If this horrific coronavirus pandemic has shown us anything, it is that national security involves a lot more than bombs.”

That statement by Sen. Bernie Sanders appeared in an article published yesterday in the UK Guardian. In the article the former candidate for the U.S. presidency illustrates how slashing the military budget even by only 10 percent could help lift the U.S. out of its status as an international pariah because of its failure to curb the coronavirus.

The latest indicator of that pariah status was the decision this week by the European Union to ban Americans from entering at least 23 countries on that continent.

Much of the world is saying to the United States that if Trump can’t get his act together on the coronavirus, Americans are not welcome in their countries. This will have nothing less than a destructive effect on the U.S. economy which Trump claims he will bring back “better than ever.”

“At this unprecedented moment in American history—a terrible pandemic, an economic meltdown, people marching across the country to end systemic racism and police brutality, growing income and wealth inequality and an unstable president in the White House—now is the time to bring people together to...

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