Tulsi Gabbard

Your goal is regime change.

Who's going to fill the vacuum?

Who is going to lead the country of Syria?

Oh, well, you know, there's this political opposition group.

It's like, that's bullshit.

When you're arming Al-Qaeda and Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist terrorist groups...

They are and will be the most powerful force on the ground.

And their goal, you may not agree with it, but their goal, they'll be happy to take your money or our money as taxpayers and the weapons that we provide, and they will then fill that vacuum of leadership.

That is who would replace the regime.

And how does that serve our national security interests?

How does that serve – how does that make us safer?

And so as you were explaining this situation, it is a very similar situation.

And whether the kind of lead time or the –

you know, consequences of this funding and who are we actually supporting and what are they doing with that money and what are their objectives, you may have your own pie-in-the-sky fantastical ideas about what you're doing, which is often the case, especially with my former party.

But it's not Democrats alone.

There were Republicans who supported that under President Obama, as I'm sure there may be some now with this funding.

You know, they say, oh, well, this is what we are trying to achieve.

But very often it is not at all rooted in reality and the world that we live in.

And so I just – it's kind of like a blast from the past as you were talking about how we are yet again arming terrorists to our own detriment as a nation.

And I remember –