De nykonservativa krigshetsarna på Washington Post (och på andra ställen) jobbar nu i overdrive för att förhindra att Tulsi Gabbard får en plats i Trumps utrikespolitik:
Why Tulsi Gabbard can’t represent America at the United Nations
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2016/11/22/why-tulsi-gabbard-cant-represent-america-at-the-united-nations/
By Josh Rogin
On Monday, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power spoke out forcefully at a U.N. Security Counsel meeting about what she called “Russian terror” in Syria, which has included in recent days the bombing of hospitals and the indiscriminate killing of hundreds of innocent civilians.
Men Tulsi Gabbard tycker tvärtom att det är bra att Ryssland bombar al-Qaida och med dem lierade grupper, vilket enligt Josh Rogin är förskräckligt:
Compare that to the recent comments by Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), who met with President-elect Donald Trump Monday and is reportedly under consideration to succeed Power as the U.S. representative to the U.N. In late September, while Russian planes were committing war crimes in Aleppo, Gabbard praised the effort:
Bad enough US has not been bombing al-Qaeda/al-Nusra in Syria. But it’s mind-boggling that we protest Russia’s bombing of these terrorists. — Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) October 1, 2015
Gabbard hade dessutom fräckheten att kritisera
neocons när hon träffade Trump:
“I felt it important to take the opportunity to meet with the President-elect now before the drumbeats of war that neocons have been beating drag us into an escalation of the war to overthrow the Syrian government,” she said.
Därför måste Gabbard till varje pris stoppas anser Rogin:
Gabbard’s plan to overtly side with Assad and Russia while they commit war crimes and crimes against humanity would reverse decades of U.S. commitment to standing up to mass atrocities. For the sake of America’s role and reputation in the world, let’s hope Trump considers that before choosing her to represent the United States on the world stage.
Ett utmordentligt gott betyg åt Gabbard.