Proyect quotes the Norman Thomas of the 1930s. But what about the Norman Thomas of the 50s and early 60s, who:
1) took money directly from his good friend, CIA chief Allen Dulles, to help sustain the Congress for Cultural Freedom, a CIA anti-Communist front, on whose board of directors Thomas sat; 2) helped the CIA to promote the Vietnamese dictator, Ngo Din Diem, and cancel the elections promised in 1956 under the Geneva Accords; 3) supported US-rigged elections in the Dominican Republic, held to legitimize the American invasion to oust the reformist leader, Juan Bosch in 1966; 4) signed a widely circulated statement denouncing the first big anti-Vietnam war protest in 1965, and warning people away, because the demonstration did not exclude people who called for the total and immediate withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam. I don't support Sanders, and think his foreign policy pronouncements are particularly pusillanimous, but he is not the State Department Socialist that Thomas was. Jim Creegan
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