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Stephen Kinzer: “Our military has been configured by our foreign policy…”

Featuring: Stephen Kinzer, Critic of interventionist U.S. foreign policy | Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs | National

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Tulsi Gabbard and Stephen Kinzer Discuss U.S. Foreign Policy and the Cost of War

Published | Video Starts at 45:12

And the other thing they know is wars never come out the way they're planned. It's not like on a board. So I think they understand this more than some civilians. Our military has been configured by our foreign policy leaders over the years for global deployment. It is not configured for defending our homeland. And that's what we use it for. It's for interfering and occupying and influencing coercively countries all over the world. (45:12–45:20)

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Asserts that U.S. military configuration is intended for global deployment rather than homeland defense.

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