Should Socialists Support Bernie Sanders?

Kindly hand out the FOUR YEAR OLD WARNING from Counterpunch on Zionists, Russian hating, war contractors in Vermont supporting Bernie Sanders at
The Myth of Bernie Sanders
by Thomas H. Naylor in Counterpunch 9/30/11 at
http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/30/the-myth-of-bernie-sanders/

Shame on Steve Early and his support of the latest Democratic Party sheepdog, Bernie Sanders. These elections do separate the serious labor organizers from the Labor Lieutenants of Capitalism. Socialists are the serious labor organizers.

Sanders claims, however, absurdly, that he has only supported wars that were a “last resort.” He includes among those, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia, despite neither having been remotely a last resort. Sanders admits as much, saying, “I supported the use of force to stop the ethnic cleansing in the Balkans.” Set aside the fact that it increased the ethnic cleansing and that diplomacy was not really attempted, what he is claiming is a philanthropic mission, not a “last resort.” Sanders also says, “And, in the wake of the attacks on September 11, 2001, I supported the use of force in Afghanistan to hunt down the terrorists who attacked us.” Set aside the Taliban’s offer to transfer Osama bin Laden to a third country to be tried, what Sanders is describing is hunting and murdering people in a distant land, not a “last resort”—and also not what he voted for, and Rep. Barbara Lee voted against, which was a blank check for endless war at presidential discretion.