of which we are seeing saudi seeingn thatagainst yeme have caused tens and thousands woulyrian civilians to diethousa and to starve. and i would make sure that we stop supporting terrorists like al qaeda in syria who ve beena n the ground force in this ongoing regime change. your they called herrussia a russian asset. is so common that we don t really think about it. but think about it just for a second. this is a transparently patriotic person, an elected member of congress who is serving in the u.s. army, who s also, by the way, one of the nicest people in all of washington who is making traditionally liberal pointsl ps about war, not all wars are bad or war is never necessary. s pa in warsipated personally. she s merely saying and has said dozend hass of timest don on television that wars thatbene don t benefit the unitedfi states are probably a bad idea for us to engage in. that s she said. and for that, shd e was run out of town .
i want her in my trench.o be it sliev pretty hard to believes now, but that wa s the absolute consensus among democratic party sycophants until 2016 in 2016. as if by command from above the fawning stopped abruptly, replaced initially by silence and then by howl s of scorned rage. so whatwh happeneapped inne 6 with donald trump is elected president and then a few days later displayingpr the independence of spirit the democrats claim to love in y young women. buoungwomen butuallyt actually anything. tulsi gabbard decided to talto k to the new president about an issue that she cared about, which was us policy toward syria. d syria a country that, again, s po virtually alone in pointing out has an awful lot of christiansn. . so maybe we should pay attention. as she put i t at the time.s quote, i felt it was importantth to take the opportunity to meet with the president elect now t-elect.before the drumbeats ofr that neocons have been beating t drag us into an escalation of. the war
they told her, stoopp what? the adults do it. but deborah didn t seem to care. a few weeks later,e. she we she went of co personally to syria. shnge wacas a member on f congro you can do that. re and she wanted to see conditions for herself. and then while she was there, she met with the syriahe syriann president , bashar al-assad. and that was it. it was over with her. tulsi gabbard knew it or not, c her career as a risingas star within the democratic party came to a complete abrupt and final halt. she had done the one thingsih and knew she committed the oneic unforgivable sin, which is to question permanent washington so foreign policy. you can t do thatneow. and everyone knows it. and if you look around, you canl see that no one does do it. they always tell a radical cindy cortez s rasheda to liebe .? would they do that? no way. aoc maybe a socialist. but in the end, she s with shll kristol and liz cheney on team raytheon. she does not cross thaott line because you re not al
prisoner swap which it might be because it involves this terrible arms dealer, viktor bout, who has caused a lot of harm around the world. but you have to do that to bring our hostages home. we have 70 hostages around the world in iran, venezuelans, africa and the middle east that deserves to come home, including a journalist, austin tise in syria. yes, i want to ask you about the attack on salman rushdie. a suspect is under arrest, we don t know that person s motive. but as you know, salman rushdie has been living under this cloud, this iranian death sentence decree that was issued way back in the late 1980s, that was never lifted. i can t imagine what it s been like all these years for salman rushdie to be living with this hanging over his head.
strikes possible in the very fact that we did this shows that there is this really robust intelligence architecture that s watching over afghanistan at this point in time. nick, we ve been talking about this war on terror. what does this mean for when it comes to counterterrorism, what does this mean for the world to have someone like al-zawahiri now gone? this is a man who seemed to have his hands and the operations of al-qaeda. they had a lower profile because of the attention focused on isis. i think an important point to make is the last major incident we had like this was the death of a baghdadi isis leader in syria. that s something you are special forces pulled off as they were withdrawing from northern syria because of that incident with turkey moving in their. that was a remarkable feat. this still carries, u.s. state after the u.s. pulled out of afghanistan. so the reach is pretty remarkable. there s now a question regarding who takes his place. the un has said in n