Tulsi Gabbard
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Wow.
And this is what I see as a common affliction in so much of, you know, you can call it the deep state, permanent Washington, the national security state, people in the State Department, the Department of Defense.
They get so, I don't know, it's like they get so lost in
These complexities that they have created for themselves that somehow justify a position that is not good for our country.
It's not complicated why we're not going after al-Qaeda in Syria.
It's not complicated.
Yeah.
There's a reason for it.
Tell the American people what the reason is.
We have our military there.
Why are you not prioritizing them going after and defeating this Islamist terrorist group that attacked us on 9-11?
And yes, they've changed al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, Jabhat al-Sham, and all these different names that they've used.
Same groups of people, same radical Islamist ideology that's fueling them.
In this same example, they took over an entire city in northern Syria, and they did so with the promise and protection of the United States government.
The name of the leader of that arm of Islamist terrorist groups is still there.
He is still ruling that city.
I've talked with some of the Syrian Kurds last year.
They are working in Washington DC, obviously still fighting for the lives of the Syrian Kurds who are under threat from Turkey every single day, but who have been our most reliable fighting force against ISIS.
I think we could not have defeated ISIS without them.