U.S. foreign policy (FP) has seldom been influenced by the Left, except through the medium of mass demonstrations. The thinking underlying such influence is usually rudimentary – peace is better than war, war is not healthy for children and other living things, etc. More erudite thinking about imperialism or sophisticated alternatives to the official line have usually been confined to the margins. One reason is that critics of U.S. foreign policy have been blocked from official positions, and it is not possible to build up a bench of credentialed experts (those with government experience). Acknowledged progressive authorities are few.
Apart from the global domination aspirations of the Blob, ##1-3 are well within the mainstream of liberal discourse. (Liberals, however, will not give up on the kinder & gentler aspects of global domination.) On #4, maybe "the left should" abandon BDS, but the DSA will not.
There is, however, a less politically suicidal form of BDS: with respect to the West Bank. Such a BDS could even empower Palestinians, if they could create exceptions for specific firms or projects. (This would have to be done by Palestinian civil society: the government is worthless.) I doubt the DSA would go for this, since it smells like a compromise with reality, and the DSA has a principled opposition to the scent--if not substance--of impurity.
Apart from the global domination aspirations of the Blob, ##1-3 are well within the mainstream of liberal discourse. (Liberals, however, will not give up on the kinder & gentler aspects of global domination.) On #4, maybe "the left should" abandon BDS, but the DSA will not.
There is, however, a less politically suicidal form of BDS: with respect to the West Bank. Such a BDS could even empower Palestinians, if they could create exceptions for specific firms or projects. (This would have to be done by Palestinian civil society: the government is worthless.) I doubt the DSA would go for this, since it smells like a compromise with reality, and the DSA has a principled opposition to the scent--if not substance--of impurity.