Tulsi Gabbard Should Turn the Tables on GOP Senators Who Oppose Her: ‘How Are Your Policies Different from Hillary Clinton’s?’
Donald Trump’s handpicked nominee to be the next Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, will face some tough questions this week when she seeks Senate confirmation. She “earned” such questions honestly by standing courageously against the brainless, spastic consensus of neoconservative interventionism and liberal internationalism over the past 15 years. That consensus has seen a dozen nations disrupted or devastated, millions of people killed, and masses driven to emigrate to Europe and the U.S. — with all the problems that brought.
Originally a liberal Democrat, Gabbard began to ask some tough questions after her military service in Iraq, where she saw her fellow service members blown up, crippled, and traumatized and at least 600,000 civilians killed while religious minorities such as Christians and Yezidi were purged. Meanwhile, our troops followed orders and let it all happen.
Why did most Democrats support that stupid war — which was sold to America via false intelligence about mythical weapons of mass destruction and smears designed to paint conservative skeptics as cowards or antisemites? Where was the antiwar left when it counted? Why did Joe Biden and so many other Democrat senators sign on George W. Bush’s pet project?
In the wake of her military experience, Gabbard became an outlier, a skeptic, a goat in a city of sheep — our nation’s capital. Better yet, she became a sheepdog, trying to protect her fellow citizens and the peoples of vulnerable countries from the grandiose fantasies of global social engineers, from Lindsey Graham in the GOP to Hillary Clinton at the State Department.
Gabbard Spoke Out Against the Neocons Risking World War III
In 2016, she spoke out when 16 out of 19 Republican presidential candidates (everyone except Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Rand Paul)
demanded that the U.S. risk war with nuclear-armed Russia by shooting down Russian planes. All to help … al Qaeda, the folks who bombed the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Among the GOP candidates, only Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and Donald Trump rejected this madness. Among the Democrats, Tulsi Gabbard stood almost alone in speaking up. She went further, and flew to Damascus to meet with that country’s leader and try to avoid a U.S. war on behalf of al Qaeda.
Gabbard was equally skeptical of our open-ended conflict in Ukraine, intended (as the Biden administration admitted) not really to expel the Russians so much as to kill or maim as many as possible in a “quagmire” designed to serve as a Russian Vietnam. Some 600,000 casualties later, the hawks still aren’t satisfied and wish to block Trump’s peace outreach.
For her trouble, Gabbard was labeled a “Russian asset,” talked about as if she were a traitor, and followed by federal marshals every time she boarded a plane — even as agents of foreign cartels swarmed freely across our borders and would-be assassins stalked presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Senator, What Have You Actually Done?
When senators question Gabbard’s patriotism or suggest that she’s effectively an appeaser or a coward, Gabbard should, instead of answering those attacks, come back with questions of her own. We decided to offer a few:
Where did you stand at the time on Barack Obama’s intervention in Libya, which removed a government that had given up weapons of mass destruction and cooperated with us against terrorism and replaced it with a festering civil war that has seen the revival of the African slave trade?
Did you speak out when Hillary Clinton’s incompetence allowed the murder of U.S. diplomats in Benghazi, which she now callously dismisses by asking, “At this point, what difference does it make?” How about when her State Department falsely blamed the massacre on a Coptic Christian immigrant’s obscure Youtube video?
Did you oppose Clinton and Obama’s “Arab Spring” offensive, which encouraged radicals linked to the Muslim Brotherhood to overthrow moderate regimes across the Middle East?
Did you support or oppose the U.S. shooting down Russian planes over Syria to help an al Qaeda affiliate take over the country, allegedly because they were “moderate rebels”?
Where do you stand on the abuse of the Patriot Act to politically target the opponents of a given presidential administration, as the Obama and Biden FBI clearly did? Are you comfortable with our FISA courts being rubber stamps that approve virtually every request to spy on American citizens? When did you speak out against that?
Did you speak out against the manufactured Russia Collusion hoax in which the FBI recycled foreign-sourced propaganda that Hillary Clinton’s campaign had paid for in order to achieve the fraudulent impeachment of President Trump?
Did you speak out when 51 intelligence professionals lied to the American public and the CIA pressured social media companies to censor the truth about Hunter Biden’s laptop by deeming it “Russian disinformation”?
Have you contested the lawfare aimed at President Trump, his supporters, and the peaceful January 6 election integrity protestors?
And two bonus questions for Republican senators, especially those facing potential primary challenges this term:
How exactly have your own foreign policy and intelligence stances differed in any way from Hillary Clinton’s? Please offer three specifics.
How comfortable do you feel about in refusing to give President Trump his mandate and the team he has chosen, given the very real likelihood that he will endorse and campaign for one of your opponents in your upcoming primary? How will explain to your constituents your insistence on shackling Trump to the failed, deadly policies of the War Party?
The answers to the last two should make for great TV. Pass the popcorn.