Bernie Sanders: The War on Terror Has Been a Disaster for the American People

09.20.17 9:00 PM ET

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“The Global War on Terror has been a disaster for the American people and for American leadership,” Sanders will say Thursday in perhaps his biggest foreign-policy speech to date, according to an excerpt seen by The Daily Beast.

Sanders also intends in his speech to go after Vladimir Putin “by name,” an aide said.

At the heart of Sanders’ speech will be a full-throated defense of Barack Obama’s signature diplomatic achievement, currently under threat from Donald Trump: the Iran deal.

With Trump flirting at the United Nations with pulling out of the deal—and his administration already having laid the groundwork for that ahead of a critical October recertification—“this speech is partially intended to sound the alarm,” a Sanders aide told The Daily Beast. “It’ll also underline the necessity of defending this deal against a faction in Washington trying to destroy it.”

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