Tulsi Gabbard delights in provocation
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R.Here is something Mysterious and toured his head around Toulcy Gabbard. It is not just a matter of first impressions: her striped silver hair (reminds us of Rogue, a character from “X-Men”); Intensive eye connection; Moving to the greeting-“Al-Wah”-was thrown with a hoarse voice. It is also its convictions. Some of them are sufficient to make a right -thinking person breathing. Mrs. Gabbard can look cheerful Woo-Woo (“” There is no power stronger than love “) or in a fateful manner (” The forces of darkness are full of strength and money “). It is difficult to know exactly what to be made of it, but it does not hate foreign wars and pleasure in confusing expectations. To the extent that it sometimes looks like a conspiracy view. It prefers the term “free thinking”.
This mysterious quality is not new. Again in 2017, when Mrs. Gabbarg was still a member of Congress and the subject of A. New Yorker Profile, I asked that magazine: “What does Toulcy Gabbard think?” The answer may not be important after that. Now, this may be, greatly, for American national security and wars from Gaza to Syria to Ukraine. Donald Trump nominated her to be for him Director of National IntelligenceHis job is to supervise 18 spy agencies. If the next Senate, which is controlled by Republicans, will be confirmed, then Mr. Trump will get the ear of every day at his intelligence conference.
Democrats have taken contact with Mrs. Gabbard, 43, one of the Russian origins. There is no evidence for that, however, the charge – however, is no less than that it is not satisfied with its nomination. Mrs. Gabbard, who was disappointed because of her service in the Iraq war, does not trust the American tangle abroad: what she calls “wars of regime change”. However, her isolation is often deviated from Rosovilia.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has excused a justified response to NATOexpansion. In 2017, she traveled to Damascus to meet Bashar al -Assad, a Syria’s dictator who was now released and who recently fled to Moscow, and said she was “skeptical” that he used chemical weapons against his people (despite the evidence he had). The Russian television presenters call it “Rafik” and “our friend”. Adam Chef, a member of the California Democratic Senate, warns that if the American allies “do not trust our intelligence president, they will stop sharing information with us.”
Before Mrs. Gabbard began describing the Democratic Party as a “elite of warm”, she belonged to her, and even one of her emerging stars. She was born in America Samoa to the father of Samoa and a white mother, Mrs. Gabbard moved to Hawaii as a child, where she was largely taught. At the age of 21, she went out of the Community College and won a seat in the legislative body of the state of Hawaii. Then the publishing operations came with the National Guard in Iraq and Kuwait, where it served in medical units and the police. In 2012, she won the elections to Congress, to become the first Hindu member. Vogue Magazine She described it as “an embodiment of Obama’s era, with … the explosion of cultural diversity” and organized a picture of surfing. The National Democratic Committee (DNCHe gave her the driving function.
The party’s dissatisfaction was crystallized during the 2016 presidential preliminary elections. Mrs. Gabdar Bernie Sanders supported. She mocked Hillary Clinton as a military intervention and her mistake, as Foreign Minister of Mr. Obama, for the chaos that followed the overthrow of the Gaddafi Mass in Libya. Mrs. Gabbard left DNC; Donors began to keep the distance. Then in 2020, the Congress left to search for the democratic presidency nominating itself as a long anti -Foundation candidate. That year, a defaming lawsuit (which she later dropped) filed against Mrs. Clinton, because she described it as a Russian factory.
Meanwhile, Mr. Trump’s victory in 2016 sparked her curiosity over the other side. She criticized the “New War Falcons” in his first administration, but found a common issue with Steve Bannon and Taker Carlson, Trump’s hairdressers and isolation colleagues. Open to be on the Democratic apostates, rented by Fox News as a modern president.
If combating interventions is one line of her career, the other is its support for Hindu nationalism, an ideology that distinguishes religion and Hindu culture in India. This preoccupation with a little curious – MS Gabbard is Hindu but it does not have an Indian heritage. However, Narindra Modi, Hindu Hindu Prime Minister, met several times. While she was in Congress, she opposed a decision condemning religious violence against Muslims and Christians in India. She said that Hindutva is simply “expressing pride in an individual’s religion.”
It is too late, the development of Mrs. Gabbard from Democrat to Republican is not all surprising. She boasts herself with an independent chain, which she attributes to her upbringing. “Are your research”, her parents told her as a child. “Make your own decisions.” Even when these decisions called for criticism. Her father gave a training example. Now, one of the Senator at the Legislative Board of Hawaii, his daughter came to the gay branch of the Hair Krishna movement-what some have called worship-and retroactive social positions in a liberal state.
Mrs. Gabbard’s designs for America’s trees must become more clear during confirmation sessions early next year; Some fear cleansing the spy in the near future. Its lack of experience in managing bureaucracies may mean that its bark is greater than a bite. There is also the issue of the president’s readiness to listen. Although Mr. Trump shares isolation instincts, in his first term, he ordered the strikes against Syria and America was almost involved in a war with Iran when he assassinated Qassem Soleimani, a prominent general. If Mrs. Gabbard is on her way, America’s foreign policy is heading to giant disposal.■
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