Matt Taibbi talks to Tulsi Gabbard about the environment, the media, the 2020 presidential race and more in a new 'Rolling Stone' podcast set to release later this month
[Gabbard’s] message: Get out of foreign wars. Leave other countries alone. Not everyone wants democracy.
Gabbard’s actual views follow logically from her experience as a soldier in the Middle East, and as a native of a state that went through a remarkableShe’s not an isolationist. She’s simply opposed to bombing the crap out of, and occupying, foreign countries for no apparent positive strategic objective, beyond enriching contractors.
So that, for me, was saying, “Hey, I can go out and gather signatures all day, but I want to be in that room where they’re making the decisions.” So that was what drove me to make that decision. It was outrageous to see. I mean, hearing, “Oh, I get paid $500 a month,” a month, “to work 12-hour days, six, seven days a week.” “How often do you get home to see your family?”And just knowing the billions of dollars these companies are making, and really to have this indentured servitude, it just, it went to, “Well this is the military industrial complex.”We look at terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIS.
Early on a Saturday morning, over a million people all across our state woke up to a warning that went out across cell phones, blaring on sirens, saying, “There’s a missile incoming. Seek immediate shelter. This is not a drill. Seek immediate shelter. This is not a drill.”
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