DetroitLolcat
Maize and Blue Badge Set 2014-2017
I think a lot of Gabbard fans have their hearts in the right place, but don't understand the difference between a leftist foreign policy and a far-right/paleoconservative foreign policy. Both are usually anti-interventionist, but a leftist wants what's best for humanity regardless of its effect on the status of an individual nation while a paleocon's anti-interventionism is rooted in nationalism. Gabbard's foreign policy is extremely rooted in nationalism and Islamophobia.
Her record on diplomacy isn't any good. There's a difference between negotiating with dictators in order to avoid war and kowtowing to them. If a U.S. president wanted to negotiate with madmen in order to prevent nuclear proliferation, that's a good thing. Obama, as hawkish as he was at times, recognized the value of diplomacy with the Iran deal. Compare that to Donald Trump, whose negotiations with Kim Jong-Un have accomplished nothing. Trump even spouts Kim's party line and denies the human rights violations committed by Kim's regime. Ultimately, Obama's Iran deal improved the standard of living in Iran by eliminating sanctions and made the world safer by preventing Iran from obtaining a nuke. Trump, on the other hand, simply denies the reality of Kim's nuclear program as well as his human rights violations, preferring to score cheap political points and looking like a diplomat. When it came to legitimate diplomacy, Trump revoked Obama's Iran deal and re-instituted sanctions. No leftist would ever accuse Trump of having a leftist foreign policy.
Tulsi Gabbard is much closer to Trump than Obama in this respect. Tulsi Gabbard's meeting with Assad ended up with her spreading falsehoods and conspiracy theories about Assad gassing his own people. It ended with no signal from Assad that he would raise the standard of living in his country or prevent nuclear proliferation. Her meetings with Assad are as hollow and dangerous as Trump's meetings with Kim. Meanwhile, Tulsi Gabbard regularly went on Fox News to scaremonger about the Iran deal and criticized Obama for not being tough enough on "radical Islamic terror", a far-right dog whistle. And remember: Gabbard's trip to Syria to meet with Assad was literally drawn up by a far-right Syrian fascist party.
Gabbard is also a self-described war hawk. She said it herself: “when it comes to the war against terrorists, I’m a hawk. When it comes to counterproductive wars of regime change, I’m a dove." She supports expanding drone strikes in the Middle East, has praised Egypt - less than one year after their dictator slaughtered over 1,200 protesters - for taking the fight to "extremist Islam". Tulsi Gabbard is not a peacenik, she just prefers brutal secular dictators to brutal Islamic ones because she is an enormous Islamophobe. Look at her quote here:
Tulsi Gabbard is the preferred candidate of David Duke and Steve Bannon, and it was Bannon who organized a Gabbard-Trump meeting shortly after his election. That's because Tulsi Gabbard's foreign policy is the same as Bannon's and her views on brown people are similar to Duke's. It's lip service to peace rooted in nationalism and Islamophobia. It's rooted in the idea that Americans shouldn't be engaging in wars to oppress Muslims throughout the world, we should be propping up dictators in the Middle East to do it for us. And don't even get me started on her adoration for Indian PM Modi, who isn't exactly the biggest fan of Islam in the world.
Tulsi Gabbard is Pat Buchanan in a lei. She's Steve Bannon who supports Medicare for All. Stop falling for her tricks.
Her record on diplomacy isn't any good. There's a difference between negotiating with dictators in order to avoid war and kowtowing to them. If a U.S. president wanted to negotiate with madmen in order to prevent nuclear proliferation, that's a good thing. Obama, as hawkish as he was at times, recognized the value of diplomacy with the Iran deal. Compare that to Donald Trump, whose negotiations with Kim Jong-Un have accomplished nothing. Trump even spouts Kim's party line and denies the human rights violations committed by Kim's regime. Ultimately, Obama's Iran deal improved the standard of living in Iran by eliminating sanctions and made the world safer by preventing Iran from obtaining a nuke. Trump, on the other hand, simply denies the reality of Kim's nuclear program as well as his human rights violations, preferring to score cheap political points and looking like a diplomat. When it came to legitimate diplomacy, Trump revoked Obama's Iran deal and re-instituted sanctions. No leftist would ever accuse Trump of having a leftist foreign policy.
Tulsi Gabbard is much closer to Trump than Obama in this respect. Tulsi Gabbard's meeting with Assad ended up with her spreading falsehoods and conspiracy theories about Assad gassing his own people. It ended with no signal from Assad that he would raise the standard of living in his country or prevent nuclear proliferation. Her meetings with Assad are as hollow and dangerous as Trump's meetings with Kim. Meanwhile, Tulsi Gabbard regularly went on Fox News to scaremonger about the Iran deal and criticized Obama for not being tough enough on "radical Islamic terror", a far-right dog whistle. And remember: Gabbard's trip to Syria to meet with Assad was literally drawn up by a far-right Syrian fascist party.
Gabbard is also a self-described war hawk. She said it herself: “when it comes to the war against terrorists, I’m a hawk. When it comes to counterproductive wars of regime change, I’m a dove." She supports expanding drone strikes in the Middle East, has praised Egypt - less than one year after their dictator slaughtered over 1,200 protesters - for taking the fight to "extremist Islam". Tulsi Gabbard is not a peacenik, she just prefers brutal secular dictators to brutal Islamic ones because she is an enormous Islamophobe. Look at her quote here:
The worst offenders in the Middle East - from Saddam Hussein to Bashar Al-Assad - have been largely secular. Gabbard's Islamophobia doesn't stop there, either. In 2015 she spoke at Christians United for Israel (That sure sounds like something a leftist would speak at...), a conference set up by Islamophobe (and - sorry for Godwin's law - Hitler praiser!) John Hagee. Hagee is a far-right evangelical wacko who explicitly says there is no such thing as moderate Islam because all Muslims are commanded to kill Christians and Jews. Given the company she keeps, no wonder Gabbard also supported the SAFE act which would have all but banned Syrian refugees from the US!Tulsi Gabbard said:“The contrast between our society and those in the Middle East made me realize that the difference—the reason those societies are so oppressive—is that they are essentially theocracies where the government and government leaders wield the power to both define and then enforce ‘morality.’”
Tulsi Gabbard is the preferred candidate of David Duke and Steve Bannon, and it was Bannon who organized a Gabbard-Trump meeting shortly after his election. That's because Tulsi Gabbard's foreign policy is the same as Bannon's and her views on brown people are similar to Duke's. It's lip service to peace rooted in nationalism and Islamophobia. It's rooted in the idea that Americans shouldn't be engaging in wars to oppress Muslims throughout the world, we should be propping up dictators in the Middle East to do it for us. And don't even get me started on her adoration for Indian PM Modi, who isn't exactly the biggest fan of Islam in the world.
Tulsi Gabbard is Pat Buchanan in a lei. She's Steve Bannon who supports Medicare for All. Stop falling for her tricks.
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