Opinion: Progressives are starting to define a new realism for our national security strategy
By Katrina vanden Heuvel Katrina vanden Heuvel Columnist covering national politics, progressive politics and movements, and foreign policy Bio Follow Columnist March 5 at 8:28 AM Although presidential campaigns generally home in on kitchen table concerns, 2020 is likely to feature a long-overdue debate on U.S. foreign and national security strategy.
The new progressive challenge begins with a call for restraint, starting with terminating wars without end. A first foray — led by Rep. Ro Khanna in the House and Sens. Christopher Murphy and Bernie Sanders in the Senate — invokes congressional war powers to end U.S. involvement in the gruesome assault on Yemen by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Khanna is also leading a broader debate among progressives sponsoring, along with the Congressional Progressive Caucus, a forum this week.
Second, progressives will elevate the real security threats that our militarized national security policy has neglected. The most imperative, of course, is the existential threat posed by catastrophic climate change. With Trump still locked into denial, progressives are demanding a return to the Paris accord and forcing a debate about a bolder Green New Deal that will put climate at the center of the 2020 debate.
The emergence of China and reemergence of Russia as great power rivals of the United States generate the greatest disagreement. The wrongheaded National Security Strategy document of the Trump administration labels Russia and China “revisionist powers” that pose an inflated threat to U.S. security. Much of the foreign policy elite is ramping up to confront both in a new Cold War.
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