I am posting Luis Navarro’s comments on Iraq separately because I didn’t want them to get lost in the longer interview posted above.
“I would say this with regards to Iraq. It is the boulder in the road to us achieving any real domestic progress in the United States both from a money standpoint as well as the drain it puts on us when the sons and daughters of this country are fighting in a foreign land. Everyone in this race opposes the war and everyone has a proposal as to how to end the war but only Joe Biden has managed to get a vote on his plan and that vote carried more than half of the Republicans in the Senate. And that is a real basis for changing Administration policy without falling back to the intransigence of a Red-Blue paradigm.
“Consider the toll that [Iraq] has taken not only in terms of money and blood overseas but also in terms of the threat it has leveled on our civil liberties here at home. This is an insidious conflict that has had real and detrimental impact on domestic politics here in the U.S. Not only as an obstacle to achieving domestic initiatives but also in terms of dividing the country, opening the door to greater government trampling on individual rights.
“And especially in the Hispanic community where we see the threat that is posed to us by an immigration policy largely dictated by demagogues on cable television and other places – that is definitely something that we should be concerned about. “
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