She
also spoke about Trump's fail to fulfill promise about a new bill
that would put an end to the Wall Street impunity, while, instead, he
did the opposite: he made a step further to deregulate it.
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Producer Emma Vigeland spoke with Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) about her
recent trip to Syria, where she met with Syrian President Bashar al
Assad, along with many Syrian civilians. Her trip has been maligned
by the mainstream press and establishment Democrats, while those who
favor an anti-interventionist foreign policy have praised her.
Gabbard
spoke again about the need of the US to stop this madness of
supporting the terrorist groups in Syria:
This support
that the US government has been providing directly and indirectly to
these armed groups working with Al-Qaeda or indirectly, by sending
that support through countries like Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar
who are also supporting these terrorist groups, is counterproductive
to the national security interests of the US. It is counterproductive
and worsening the suffering of the Syrian people and it's something
that we've got to bring an end to.
The way to
stop this war, the best way to create a path toward peace is:
1) Stop
providing arms, money, support to these groups that are working and
directly allied with Al-Qaeda, ISIS and other terrorist groups.
2) Focus on
actually defeating these terrorist groups that are destroying the
Syrian people and their lives and that do pose a direct threat to the
US.
3) Engage
with the Syrian government, engage with those who, whether we like it
or not, have a direct stake in serious future. Engage with Assad
without pre-conditions. Allow the Syrian people to determine their
own future for themselves.
She also
highlighted the absurdity and hypocrisy of the US policy on Syria
through the fact that by arming terrorists, the US and its allies in
the Middle East are destroying a highly secular society in which
religion was not the top priority among the people, and therefore,
was not a barrier that could prevent them live in harmony and peace.
The pretext for the US proxy-war in Syria was again the known
scenario of another "brutal dictator" that had to be
overthrown. Yet, they supported the most brutal terrorists, along
with the most brutal regime, that of Saudi Arabia, destroying a
secular society! Absurdity and hypocrisy indeed:
The
Syrian people who I met with from all different walks of life, are
asking us to stop supporting these terrorist groups who have
kidnapped and murdered their family members, who have raped and
tortured their kids, who have shut down their schools in their
country and who have caused such great devastation. They want to be
able to determine the future of Syria for themselves. A
future that is secular and allows the same kind of freedom of
religion that they have experienced now for generations.
People
who I heard from, they almost felt ashamed and apologized for even
mentioning their religion. This is something, they said, we never had
to do : 'my best friend, or my next-door neighbor is Christian and
I'm Muslim', that was never part of anyone's conversation until this
war began, where you have these armed militants that are being funded
by outside countries, the US, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar and others,
who allied and partnered with Al-Qaeda and ISIS and groups like them,
who are the exact opposite of this non-sectarian society to the
extreme, where if you don't convert to their ideology, they will kill
you.
She
also spoke about the impact of the sanctions on people's lives:
One of
the other things that was very striking to me and frankly that I was
surprised by, was the effect and impact of the embargoes and
sanctions on Syria. This is something that put in place by our
government, supposedly to punish the Syrian government, but the
impact is really felt most directly in a very harsh and destructive
way by the Syrian people themselves.
Finally,
she also spoke about Trump's fail to fulfill promise about a new bill
that would put an end to the Wall Street impunity, while, instead, he
did the opposite: he made a step further to deregulate it:
On
the campaign trail I believe Trump said that he would reinstate
Glass–Steagall, yet we've seen a recent executive order asking
Treasury for a plan on how to deregulate Wall Street, so
I'm very concerned about this because this is an issue that impacts
communities like mine and Hawaii and people and families all across
country.
The
problem with Dodd–Frank was not that it did too much, it did too
little. The big banks that were Too Big to Fail back in 2008 are even
bigger and more powerful today than they were back then, and as you
know, no one has been held accountable for the devastation that
they've caused in people's everyday lives. The homes that were lost,
the lives and retirements that were destroyed. So, we have a
bipartisan bill called the Return to Prudent Banking Act, that would
essentially reinstate 21st century Glass–Steagall, in order to
separate those risky investment banking practices that Wall Street
does on the backs of the American people, from basic, everyday
commercial banking. This is one of the main things that caused the
crisis in 2008. It's a common sense bipartisan measure that we are
looking to build more support for and to remind president
Trump that on the campaign trail he said he would do this.
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