Tulsi Gabbard, a 35-year-old Democrat
representative from the state of Hawaii, made a secret
fact-finding visit to Damascus this past week. For security
reasons, the exact dates of the trip weren’t published, but the date of the
report was January 19. Gabbard, an Iraq War veteran, met
with U.S. president-elect Donald Trump in November to discuss
Syria policy. Despite her backing Bernie Sanders in the primaries, it was
reported that Trump is considering her for a position at the Pentagon or the
State Department.
During the meeting, Gabbard said she told
the President Elect:
… [of] my
grave concerns that escalating the war in Syria by implementing a so-called no
fly/safe zone would be disastrous for the Syrian people, our country and the
world.
Gabbard’s concerns are valid. In
fact, she comes across as the antidote to the interventionists in the Gang
of Eight, so it’s no wonder she finds a receptive audience in Donald
Trump. She has long opposed the idea of regime change and says Syria
would descend farther into chaos should Bashar Assad be ousted.
On January 13, Gabbard introduced the Stop
Arming Terrorists Act, which would prohibit U.S. taxpayer dollars being spent
to support or back “terrorist groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda in their war to
overthrow the Syrian government.” Gabbard also said on the House floor:
Our limited
resources should go toward rebuilding our communities here at home, not fueling
more counterproductive regime-change wars abroad[.] … [S]top this madness.
On that, she’ll have no argument from me.
John Smith is the pen name of a former
U.S. intelligence officer.
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