[Peace] Gabbard, Rand Paul, and the Stop Arming Terrorists Act,

[Carl G. Estabrook]

http://www.newslogue.com/debate/394/CaitlinJohnstone?referrer=emailNewArticle <http://www.newslogue.com/debate/394/CaitlinJohnstone?referrer=emailNewArticle>

...It is an established fact that America has been knowingly arming, funding and training terrorist factions in Syria, who are the only groups still fighting against the Assad government that the US establishment wants to overthrow. With her bipartisan Stop Arming Terrorists Act, [Rep. Tulsi] Gabbard [D-HI] is forcing American politicians to take a stand on this unforgivable behavior in front of the whole nation.

...Following Gabbard’s lead, outspoken non-interventionist Republican Rand Paul [R-KY] has now introduced the Senate version of this same Act, which means that if Gabbard decides to do what so many of us are screaming our lungs out for her to do and runs for president in 2020, she’ll likely be competing for the nomination with Democrats who‘ve voted against one of the two congressional bills. The legislation is expected to be met with resistance from the increasingly indistinguishable neocons and establishment Democrats, since it attacks longstanding policies backed by the Bush and Obama administrations, and by their military industrial complex donors and the plutocrats who benefit from America’s insane interventionist foreign policy…

—CGE
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