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Tulsi Gabbard: US needs to 'stop pretending' Saudi Arabia is an ally
The Hill ^ | June 2019

Posted on 06/28/2019 11:16:49 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

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Tulsi Gabbard has been winning praise from the likes of Tucker Carlson, Mike Cernovich, and was apparently even considered by Steve Bannon for a spot on Trump's admin at one point. She is winning favor over her anti-interventionist or anti "Neocon" posture. Lumping Trump with the war hawks of the Bush administration.

Yet she is critical of Trump's signature anti-establishment moves. Among them being pulling out of the Iran Nuclear Deal and boldly solidifying America's commitment to Jerusalem.

The Gabbards of the world would rather we play nice with the likes of Hamas, Hezbollah, and others...

So how should Trump respond to her points about Saudi Arabia?

1 posted on 06/28/2019 11:16:49 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Does she think Iran is an ally. Does she think Israel is not on our side. Inquiring minds would like to know.


2 posted on 06/28/2019 11:18:07 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

They are a customer.


3 posted on 06/28/2019 11:18:26 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend is an ancient proverb which suggests that two opposing parties can or should work together against a common enemy."
4 posted on 06/28/2019 11:23:46 AM PDT by chief lee runamok (expect nothing)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Saudi Arabia of deliberately pushing the U.S. toward a war with Iran

YUP..!

They regard us as PISS BOYS.

They want us to fight THEIR wars.

It's similar to Yemen, where the men actually fighting are mercs, mostly from Peru.

"When we need something, we'll hire some foreigners."

5 posted on 06/28/2019 11:26:40 AM PDT by gaijin
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So what’s your alternative?

Is Israel our actual enemy? Is Iran our ally? Should we re-establish Obama’s Nuclear Deal with them?


6 posted on 06/28/2019 11:30:06 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: Parley Baer

Given the choice between Iran, which openly supports Islamic terrorism, and Saudi Arabia, which officially does not (but secretly does) ‘pretending’ to be a Saudi ally is the only logical choice.


7 posted on 06/28/2019 11:30:30 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Not going to be lectured by any demoncRAT about playing “pretend”


8 posted on 06/28/2019 11:30:43 AM PDT by RatRipper
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

She is correct.


9 posted on 06/28/2019 11:30:45 AM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: laplata

Just posted this to gaijin:

So what’s your alternative?

Is Israel our actual enemy? Is Iran our ally? Should we re-establish Obama’s Nuclear Deal with them?


10 posted on 06/28/2019 11:31:53 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: Vigilanteman

Saudi Arabia keeps their friends close and their enemies even closer.


11 posted on 06/28/2019 11:32:46 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
The Saudis are no more united in their goals and motivations than we are in the US.

The battle lines in the Saudi Kingdom mostly settle around the fundamentalist islamics versus those open to reforms - with a healthy dollop of money-grabbing on both sides.

12 posted on 06/28/2019 11:33:52 AM PDT by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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The U.S. needs to stop pretending the Democrat Party is an ally. The Democrat Party is a greater threat to us than any foreign nation.
13 posted on 06/28/2019 11:34:32 AM PDT by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Obama went over there and made major speech slamming his own country after he bowed to their king and she never said a word


14 posted on 06/28/2019 11:35:26 AM PDT by Lib-Lickers 2
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The U.S. needs to stop pretending the Democrat Party is an ally. The Democrat Party is a greater threat to us than any foreign nation.

WELL SAID! And at the end of the day the likes of Tulsi and Yang and other so-called moderates hold to the main tenets of the party: abortion on demand, socialism, illegal immigration unabated, replacement of our Judeo-Christian social fabric with secular/new-age ideals, etc...The very things ruining our country from within.

15 posted on 06/28/2019 11:37:08 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

She actually said Trump was Saudi Arabia’s Bitch, so I doubt there is anything he could say or do that would placate this woman. I doubt anyone is naïve enough to think Saudi Arabia acts in our best interests, but we can work with them and they give us a foothold in the Middle East that we need. It’s called diplomacy, and has been a policy of the US government for a very long time. If Gabbard doesn’t understand that basic concept she is definitely not ready for prime time.


16 posted on 06/28/2019 11:37:53 AM PDT by cbvanb
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To: laplata

Yep. And if she keeps saying things like this she’ll give Trump a run for the money.


17 posted on 06/28/2019 11:38:10 AM PDT by Blurb2350
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Tulsi is forgetting Trump’s first foreign trip and what he clearly accomplished there.

A lot of people either forgot that, or never knew about it.


18 posted on 06/28/2019 11:39:46 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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A Dem got something right. Pretend alliance w/ the home of the most radical form of Islam; for the sake of EU and other actual allies...


19 posted on 06/28/2019 11:40:46 AM PDT by veracious (UN=OIC=Islam ; USAgov may be radically changed, just amend USConstitution)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

We are their blue-eyed mercenaries.

They keep their oil trade in US dollars, and buy weapons and other things from American companies. We in turn help them maintain and grow Sunni (and thus Saudi) supremacy in the Muslim world. Their strategic projection consists of the USA, and also their ability to form and direct groups like Al Qaeda and ISIS to achieve their foreign policy aims.

Is it a good deal for the USA? I’ll let others judge.


20 posted on 06/28/2019 11:41:22 AM PDT by PGR88
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