Tulsi Gabbard

and national security when it's not justified. And so I'll use Afghanistan as an example. I support the initial mission that lifted off shortly after the attack on 9-11, the Islamist terrorist attack on 9-11. It was a relatively small group of US military launched to go after those Al-Qaeda cells and Osama bin Laden in the wake of that attack.

and national security when it's not justified. And so I'll use Afghanistan as an example. I support the initial mission that lifted off shortly after the attack on 9-11, the Islamist terrorist attack on 9-11. It was a relatively small group of US military launched to go after those Al-Qaeda cells and Osama bin Laden in the wake of that attack.

and national security when it's not justified. And so I'll use Afghanistan as an example. I support the initial mission that lifted off shortly after the attack on 9-11, the Islamist terrorist attack on 9-11. It was a relatively small group of US military launched to go after those Al-Qaeda cells and Osama bin Laden in the wake of that attack.

that is the mission that should have been supported and focused on in its execution. Instead, as you know, attention was diverted very quickly to the regime change war in Iraq that was waged on false pretenses, and the resources and focus was taken away from that initial mission that went on. to Afghanistan.

that is the mission that should have been supported and focused on in its execution. Instead, as you know, attention was diverted very quickly to the regime change war in Iraq that was waged on false pretenses, and the resources and focus was taken away from that initial mission that went on. to Afghanistan.

that is the mission that should have been supported and focused on in its execution. Instead, as you know, attention was diverted very quickly to the regime change war in Iraq that was waged on false pretenses, and the resources and focus was taken away from that initial mission that went on. to Afghanistan.

And the war in Afghanistan blew up into something that became about regime change and governance and the Taliban and less focus on Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. And it became this thing that even general officers had a hard time articulating what is the objective here? What are we trying to accomplish? What does winning look like? At what point do we know it's time to exit and get out?

And the war in Afghanistan blew up into something that became about regime change and governance and the Taliban and less focus on Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. And it became this thing that even general officers had a hard time articulating what is the objective here? What are we trying to accomplish? What does winning look like? At what point do we know it's time to exit and get out?

And the war in Afghanistan blew up into something that became about regime change and governance and the Taliban and less focus on Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. And it became this thing that even general officers had a hard time articulating what is the objective here? What are we trying to accomplish? What does winning look like? At what point do we know it's time to exit and get out?

And as you look at things like the Afghanistan files and others, the answers to these simple and essential questions shifted and changed over time, over a very long time. Similarly in Iraq, you know, the

And as you look at things like the Afghanistan files and others, the answers to these simple and essential questions shifted and changed over time, over a very long time. Similarly in Iraq, you know, the

And as you look at things like the Afghanistan files and others, the answers to these simple and essential questions shifted and changed over time, over a very long time. Similarly in Iraq, you know, the

i i bought into a lot of what was being sold by the administration and by democrats and republicans and congress at the time and very quickly even as i was on the ground there started to have my eyes opened up into how we had been how we had been lied to tremendously and how that protracted war went on for a very very long time with decisions being made that ultimately served to strengthen

i i bought into a lot of what was being sold by the administration and by democrats and republicans and congress at the time and very quickly even as i was on the ground there started to have my eyes opened up into how we had been how we had been lied to tremendously and how that protracted war went on for a very very long time with decisions being made that ultimately served to strengthen

i i bought into a lot of what was being sold by the administration and by democrats and republicans and congress at the time and very quickly even as i was on the ground there started to have my eyes opened up into how we had been how we had been lied to tremendously and how that protracted war went on for a very very long time with decisions being made that ultimately served to strengthen

terrorist groups like al-Qaeda, the creation of ISIS, and others really undermining our national security interests in the meantime. understanding the enemy that you are trying to defeat is essential to being able to build a strategy. The declaration of President Biden, for example, saying, well, the war on terror is over. The war on terror is over. What does that mean?

terrorist groups like al-Qaeda, the creation of ISIS, and others really undermining our national security interests in the meantime. understanding the enemy that you are trying to defeat is essential to being able to build a strategy. The declaration of President Biden, for example, saying, well, the war on terror is over. The war on terror is over. What does that mean?

terrorist groups like al-Qaeda, the creation of ISIS, and others really undermining our national security interests in the meantime. understanding the enemy that you are trying to defeat is essential to being able to build a strategy. The declaration of President Biden, for example, saying, well, the war on terror is over. The war on terror is over. What does that mean?

Or the forever wars are over. What does that actually mean? I served on my last, most recent deployment in 2021 to East Africa and Somalia, where al-Shabaab is one of those Islamist terrorist groups that follows the same ideology as al-Qaeda, ISIS, Hamas, and others.

Or the forever wars are over. What does that actually mean? I served on my last, most recent deployment in 2021 to East Africa and Somalia, where al-Shabaab is one of those Islamist terrorist groups that follows the same ideology as al-Qaeda, ISIS, Hamas, and others.