I just feel like Bernie's passion lies with the American people, and not with the wager of wars.
As it should be.
I'm in france, so I'm even less concerned about the US foreign policies than its domestic and economic policies (which concern me a lot more). But why is US foreign policy seemingly so important to US voters?
You're currently far, far behind everyone else in the industrialized world when it comes to healthcare and education. Shouldn't this be a much higher priority than deciding which country you're going to bomb next? Where you'll send your soldiers to die in order to line the pockets of the military industry?
How can presidential candidates be considered viable when they talk about carpet bombing (republicans) or keeping the aggression at the same level or even more (clinton) when they're unable to give a detailed plan on what they intend to do to clean up the domestic mess in the first place?
I've watched nearly every debate, republican and democrat, watched a ton of the available coverage on YT, read most of the articles linked here and elsewhere, and the single presidential candidate who's even remotely pragmatic, practical and realistic is Bernie.
He clearly says that he won't be able to do what needs to be done by himself. It falls to you to elect proper politicians to congress and to keep the pressure on. Even if he wasn't elected, you'd still be able to fight for the congress and keep the ball rolling until Warren gets elected in 2020.
So what if he's not focused on middle-east policies? He's focused on what matters: moving the US back into a support role over there, bringing back the troops (if and when it's possible) and focusing on fixing your democracy. The thing that decides everything else. The thing on which every single one of your citizens depends, except for the super rich who have already enough to go live out the rest of their days on an exotic island.
Sanders being "intelligent and informed but not deeply immersed in the subject matter", as far as foreign policy is concerned, is precisely in the ideal position. He knows what's happening, he knows to keep an eye on it in case the US actually has to do something, but most importantly, he knows that unless and until something actually requires an intervention from the US, the main focus should be domestic. Money in politics (I feel obligated to paste http://www.wolf-pac.com/ here). Then healthcare and education. Then... well by then he'll probably have already been replaced by Warren or whoever you elected to pursue Bernie's (and your) agenda.
As US citizens, you're in this for the long haul. Bernie is the beginning. Win or lose (but please win this one) you need to keep the pressure on for every single election, at every level, until it becomes the standard again. Until the US has caught up to the rest of the world.
From the other side of the Atlantic, we're counting on you. What happens in your 2016 election will have heavy impacts on us all. Your corporations are our corporations. If you give up, they'll not only keep on taking the US over but they'll get the confirmation that they can do the same thing everywhere else. And, at least in france, we don't have a Bernie Sanders. Never have, probably never will.
Keep on fighting, you can actually make a difference. Not only for the US, but for everyone.
(Sorry for the quantity of text, this tends to fire me up. I can't do much from here, but at least I can try to send some... encouragements. it seems to be an actual word in english too, I'll go with that :)