For too long, starting and funding endless wars abroad has had bipartisan support. This is particularly shameful for Democrats because for much of the latter part of the 20th century the Democratic Party had a small but influential antiwar wing. Countless foreign interventions not only have made our country less safe, they have wasted valuable resources that could be used here at home. 

In the richest country in the world, people can’t afford rent and groceries but Congress always finds money to drop bombs on people – in “other” parts of the world. As your congressman, I would actively oppose  the Democratic leadership’s complicity in our warmongering status quo. We cannot “bomb our way to peace.” Instead, I would prioritize resolving international conflicts peacefully through diplomacy.

These endless wars have not been about democracy or freedom. This is becoming more and more apparent to the American public as Trump has unabashedly claimed that we should “take over” and “own” Gaza, or more recently, “run” Venezuela  and conquer Greenland. Aggression is the gravest breach of international law according to the United Nations Charter and was defined by American lawyers at Nuremberg Tribunal as “the supreme international crime.” Therefore, we must begin to recognize that peace, promoting international cooperation, and standing up for human rights begins first and foremost with respecting other nations’ sovereignty.