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| Tulsi Gabbard: Yes, America Bears Some Blame For Iran Shooting Down That Ukrainian Jet |
| 2020-01-11 |
| Only if you're still in the habit of telling people "see what you made me do." [Hot Air] Between this and last month’s weak-ass cop-out on the big impeachment vote, she’s repaying her righty fans richly for their inexplicable political interest in her. There was suspense surrounding her vote on impeachment, though. There was no suspense as to whether she’d agree with Pete Buttigieg that moral culpability for the Ukrainian jet shootdown is shared between Iran and the United States even though it was Iran’s own negligence that brought the jet down, with not a single bullet fired that evening by the U.S. A rule of thumb that will stand you in good stead during Gabbard interviews: When offered an opportunity to deflect blame from Iran or its proxies (notably Bashar Assad) for the region’s problems, she’ll take it every time. If it were a simple matter of her wanting to communicate that war inevitably leads to escalation and therefore should be avoided, she could have made that point without involving the jet. Their proxies attacked our embassy; then we attacked their general; then they attacked our air bases; then we sanctioned them; and now it’s their turn to retaliate for that. People have died and more people will. She could have bracketed the calamity with the jet as something different, an example of "the fog of war" and Iranian incompetence. But ardent doves like Gabbard are a mirror image of ardent hawks like Lindsey Graham in that their urgency to advance their position leads them easily into demagoguery of domestic opponents, even when those opponents are allies on unrelated issues. Graham votes with Mike Lee and Rand Paul on most business before the Senate but that didn’t stop him from accusing them of "empowering the enemy" by trying to assert Congress’s constitutional power over declaring war. Gabbard has become MAGA Nation’s favorite Democrat for her isolationism and her willingness to break with party orthodoxy on some issues (e.g., she believes in borders) but that doesn’t stop her here from endorsing the Buttigieg view of Trump’s culpability. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 "She wants to take my gun last, I love her." People who talk like that I'm interested in hitting with a shovel. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-01-11 19:57 |
| #9 Anybody who is dumb enough to fly to Iran is responsible for their own misfortune. I accept none of it and resent anyone who suggests that I should. But the fact that Tulsi is a Democrat is all I ever needed to know about her. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2020-01-11 12:40 |
| #8 Traitors should self-darwinate with extreme prejudice. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2020-01-11 11:45 |
| #7 Ah, that's my Hawai'ian lolo. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2020-01-11 09:01 |
| #6 I have to go with the gun & pickup truck to be... more authentically American. Plus - yeah, Tulsi's a fucking moron. Sorry gal - you are pretty on the outside but ugly on the inside. |
| Posted by: Raj 2020-01-11 08:03 |
| #5 /\ It may not be just the Democrats. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-01-11 05:47 |
| #4 Billy Jeff Clinton - sax and sunglasses. Robert "The Micksican" O'Rourke - skateboard Tubby Flabbard - surfboard. You get the impression the gimmick prop is an important box to check with Democrat voters. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-01-11 03:50 |
| #3 Toldja she's an airhead. Uneducated. Ignorant. Unchallenged because she wades in the kiddie pool aka Hawaii. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-01-11 02:35 |
| #2 Perhaps this will be enough to end her 15 minutes of fame with conservatives. A communist idiot who believes in borders is still a communist idiot. |
| Posted by: Crusader 2020-01-11 01:07 |
| #1 I did like Tulsi because she didn't back down from attacks from the demoncrats. But, no. This is a bridge to far. Fuck you bitch. The US isn't responsible for this. Eat a dick and fucking choke on it. Worthless fucking media whore. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2020-01-11 00:55 |