Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: We Need To Check This Right Here. Who On DU is STILL Support Tulsi Gabbard After This....and WHY? [View all]herding cats
(19,564 posts)I notice there no mention of either in your post.
We're in the ME mess up to our eyeballs and despised for out meddling. I agree it was wrong, but that's irrelevant at this point. Tell me, do we sell out allies (read: people we used for our purposes) to die and walk away whistling Yankee Doodle Dandy dusting our hands off and pretending we've not just been complacent in war crimes?
Tulsi is fine with that. Think about that for a moment, please? Who does that benefit and who loses? Geo politics aren't really all that complicated if you're paying attention to what's actually at stake.
Yes, I agree some extremely nefarious people helped create the current situation. I'd never deny that, but leaving a war criminal to commit atrocities against people who appose him still isn't right. Hell, there are other places I'd like to have seen us intervene than Syria, too. Our hand was forced there due to Putin. That's just a reality.
All roads here do lead back to Putin. Who is going to stop him from breaking our modern world? Are we supposed to turn a blind eye and isolate ourselves as the Trump doctrine says? Do you honestly think that will save us from retribution and global fallout?
The ship has sailed and we're currently navigating rudderless.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden