Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Tulsi Gabbard says Kamala's entire Campaign is based on a Lie [View all]pnwmom
(109,388 posts)Her time in Iraq and Kuwait, while laudable, doesn't make Gabbard an expert in foreign affairs, and her position on Syria should be disqualifying.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/tulsi-gabbards-syria-record-shows-why-she-cant-be-president/2019/08/01/f804c790-b497-11e9-8949-5f36ff92706e_story.html
The Syrian people are constantly targeted by Russian and Assad regime propaganda and when there is a U.S. presidential candidate like Tulsi spewing these same lines, they feel only more disheartened and abandoned, Moustafa said. Gabbard is a reminder to them how inhumane the world has been about Syria.
When opposing congressional legislation calling for humanitarian aid for the Syrian people and protection of civilians, Gabbard called it a thinly veiled regime-change effort using the rationale of humanitarianism. Thats an atrocious response to what State Department officials have called the worst machinery of death since the Nazis.
Other Democratic candidates have promised to end U.S. military adventurism without making excuses for a mass murderer. Its neither progressive nor liberal to defend Assad, a fascist, totalitarian psychopath who can never peacefully preside over Syria after what he has done.
Gabbards plan to overtly side with Assad and Russia while they commit crimes against humanity would be a strategic disaster, a gift to the extremists and a betrayal of decades of U.S. commitments to stand up to mass atrocities. Democratic voters who believe in liberalism and truth must reject not only her candidacy but also her attempt to disguise moral bankruptcy as a progressive value.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden