Tulsi Gabbard

I mean, no is the answer.

You know, I wouldn't doubt that there are some nefarious intents by some people or intentions by some people.

But I think that there are any kind of clarity that a normal person would have in looking at this situation.

Like any normal common sense person, you don't have to have served in the military to get this.

You don't have to have some degree in foreign policy and geopolitics to understand how insane this is.

And it seems like their judgment and the normal clarity that should be there is clouded by arrogance and this idea that, well, just because we say this is what the outcome will be, that's what it will be.

There are so many different examples of—and I actually asked, I questioned then Secretary Mattis, and this was a few years later, obviously, but I questioned because this was continuing on.

And I asked him in an open hearing in the Armed Services Committee—

Why aren't we going after Al-Qaeda in Syria, Al-Qaeda and ISIS in Syria?

Because the focus was on regime change, not on defeating Islamist terrorism at that time.

And his answer was, it's complicated.

Period.

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.