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Even though he's no longer in Congress, former U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich is still sounding off on foreign affairs.

(Lisa DeJong, The Plain Dealer)

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Not having a bully pulpit in Congress isn't keeping former Cleveland Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich from sounding off on issues ranging from marijuana legalization to foreign affairs

A week after addressing a crowd at Nevada's Burning Man festival that included dreadlocked Caucasians and a naked man with a pierced penis on subjects including government surveillance and marijuana legalization, Kucinich penned a piece in Huffington Post that warned the U.S. and NATO against meddling in Russia and the Middle East.

Kucinich, now a contributor at FoxNews who made headlines last year by interviewing Syrian president Bashar al-Assad cautioned the United States shouldn't respond to ISIS' terrorist tactics in a way that will only fuel more terrorism.

"As provocative and gruesome as ISIS' tactics are, we must make sure that our response to violent groups around the world does not send us spinning into another disastrous cycle of intervention, occupation, insurgency, deaths of innocent civilians, and the subsequent emboldening of more terrorism," Kucinich wrote in the Huffington Post piece published last night. "Backing terrorists to help bring about regime change results in perpetual war and a staggering national debt."

Instead of bombing raids, he suggested ISIS be confronted by "drying up its sources of revenue from places like Saudi Arabia and Qatar."

The former Cleveland mayor cited recent terrorist capture of 11 Libyan jetliners as an example of how NATO's tactics have backfired.

"Delegates from 28 countries are now meeting in Wales to hear NATO's plan for aggressively responding to Russia," Kucinich wrote. "Since there is no evidence that NATO learned anything from its misadventure in Libya, the world community should give pause when this unaccountable organization prepares to lead it into another conflict."

So what does Kucinich want the United States to do? He's got a list:

Stop creating wars.

Stop funding and arming mercenaries.

Stop causing abject chaos by "liberating" countries and delivering them to illegitimate non-state actors, i.e. terrorists.

Stop NATO and other Western front groups from promoting neo-conservative agendas which lust for empire, for control of oil and gas resources, and which bait countries into conflict to cause an increase in arms trade.

Stop playing the naïve fool and falling for the theater of propaganda while interest groups and arms dealers stand at the cash register.

He says the United States must "transition to a new domestic economic model that does not rely on a military industrial complex and arms manufacturing in every Congressional district in order to function.

"Only then can we embark on a new path of strong and patient diplomacy, working together with the community of nations to address security challenges, letting our allies take responsibility for regional security, being willing to talk to anyone in the cause of stability, and setting aside stale, ideological doctrines of intervention."