Left-wing activist Michael Moore says US defense should focus on climate, white supremacists, Covid vaccines

Left-wing activist Michael Moore claimed Sunday that U.S. defense policy and spending should be refocused from military involvement in other countries to instead fight climate change, White supremacy and the coronavirus pandemic.

"As we speak tonight the U.S. still has 2,500 troops in Iraq. Last week the U.S. military admitted that a drone strike in Kabul that killed ten innocent civilians was an American drone strike. Seven of them were kids. We talk about ending the war but we’re still going to carry on with drones, we're still going to carry on with these, quote, over-the-horizon operations. You know, we are still at war," host Mehdi Hasan said after playing a clip of President Joe Biden touting the U.S. not being at war for the first time in 20 years.

"And in Syria and in Somalia … Our fingers are in many countries in a military way and this has to stop," Moore said in response. "Our troops – we should be the good guys. We should be using our troops – a billion people on this planet tonight don’t have access to clean drinking water. I think a couple billion don’t have access to decent sewage or septic system(s)."