Tulsi Gabbard: “Voices that we would expect from the Democratic Party…”

Name: Tulsi Gabbard and Stephen Kinzer Discuss U.S. Foreign Policy and the Cost of War
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“One of the main reasons that I ran was because I saw the writing on the wall about the dangers of entering into a new Cold war where that…”

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“Diplomatic talks between the United States and Russia and the US and China are basically nonexistent at this point.”

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“These sanctions are never lifted once they are put in place.”

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“There is always a blank check coming from Congress [for] spending our American taxpayer dollars to wage new wars, a new cold war, a nuclear…”

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“They tell people back here at home, people who are struggling for clean water or for safe communities or securing our borders, just saying…”

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“You never hear them actually talk about and tell the American people what is the cost of war in the form of cost in human lives, the form of…”

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“The United States [is] interfering in other people's elections.”

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“We look to where we are today with this proxy war with Russia and people really across the spectrum saying, yeah, we are at a greater risk…”

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“There seem to be more Republicans now willing to take that position and say, hey, yeah, let's have a realistic view, let's exercise…”

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“When this group of the so called Progressive Caucus stood up and said, hey, President Biden, pursue diplomacy to bring about an end to the…”

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“Regime change wars are waged under this guise of good heartedness and humanitarianism.”

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“Things so often end up far worse for the people in these countries than they were before.”

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“They're lying to the American people when they're saying like, oh, we got to go save these people from this evil, evil person.”

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“The United States also has a very active role in choosing who replaces [leaders they deem unacceptable].”

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“There's a pretty heavy hand of the US Government to pick or tilt the scales...on who those people are.”

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“We have [sanctions] in place in far more places than people realize.”

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“Interventionist foreign policy works against our country's interests and national security interests.”

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“Hillary Clinton and others advocating for a world's police policy have undermined our national security interests.”

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“The prevailing foreign policy establishment in Washington sees competition as a zero sum outcome.”

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“Sanctions have a negative effect both directly and indirectly on the civilians in these countries that are being sanctioned.”

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“These massive sanctions regimes that are intended to try to make, you know, these leaders and oligarchs and people in Russia suffer. Well…”

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“I still serve in the army reserves almost 20 years.”

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“The foreign policy establishment that's been in charge for so long has done a great disservice to this country.”

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“The nation building mission that our military has been used for for so long has been proven to be a failure.”

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“Oftentimes the only lines of communication where diplomacy can actually happen are the relationships between military leaders from the…”

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“The diplomats in charge of the State Department are too often the ones who are egging on and encouraging waging of war, whether it be…”

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“There is more done to manipulate voters and limit their access to fair information so they can draw their own conclusions by our corporate…”

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“The politicians and the foreign policy establishment in Washington is disconnected from the sentiment of the American people, who largely…”

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“Most people had no concept of how much of our taxpayer dollars were going towards this war.”

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“We were waging war in Afghanistan for over 20 years.”

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“There was no clear objective [in the Afghanistan war].”

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“The Cost of War project at Brown has done a great job in really looking at what that cost has been.”

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“I introduced an amendment to the National Defense Authorization act as well as a separate standalone bill that very simply required an…”

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“My legislation just said we need to get periodic reports to Congress on what the consequences of these sanctions are.”

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“I was surprised that I was able to get this legislation passed in the defense bill through the House.”

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“Somehow it got stripped out in the dark of night with no explanation whatsoever before the final bill came forward.”

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“The dual use clause really ends up impacting [civilians].”

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“We have these politicians completely focused on how do we cause great harm to others.”

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“We see how [sanctions have] a direct negative effect on the American people themselves.”

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“We cannot achieve prosperity and uphold freedom without peace.”

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“We should be developing relationships with other countries to find those areas of mutual interest to increase mutual prosperity.”

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“Most Americans are sick and tired of these constant regime change, wars, these constant interventions.”

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“The spending of trillions of our taxpayer dollars on wars that actually undermine our national security.”

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“Trillions of our taxpayer dollars [are] sent overseas.”

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“We shouldn't be the policeman of the world.”

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“We have the opportunity as a country to exercise real leadership by demonstrating how we can find those areas of mutual interest and mutual…”

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Tulsi Gabbard: “Voices that we would expect from the Democratic Party to be…”