Tulsi says "end" the alliance, Bernie says "redefine the relationship." Both say end our support for Saudi Arabia's war against Yemen.
Great interview! Here is the video:
https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2018/10/18/lead-rep-tulsi-gabbard-live-jake-tapper.cnn
Not sure if mentioned yet, but I think Nikki Haley resigned because she heard about the murder and learned Trump would do little or nothing. Timeline seems to match up.
dave said:
Not sure if mentioned yet, but I think Nikki Haley resigned because she heard about the murder and learned Trump would do little or nothing. Timeline seems to match up.
Based on what evidence? Haley was fine with the murders in Yemen and Israel; why would the offing of one journalist bother her?
nan said:
dave said:Based on what evidence? Haley was fine with the murders in Yemen and Israel; why would the offing of one journalist bother her?
Not sure if mentioned yet, but I think Nikki Haley resigned because she heard about the murder and learned Trump would do little or nothing. Timeline seems to match up.
"One man's death is a tragedy. Millions of deaths is a statistic"
Stalin
LOST said:
nan said:"One man's death is a tragedy. Millions of deaths is a statistic"
dave said:Based on what evidence? Haley was fine with the murders in Yemen and Israel; why would the offing of one journalist bother her?
Not sure if mentioned yet, but I think Nikki Haley resigned because she heard about the murder and learned Trump would do little or nothing. Timeline seems to match up.
Stalin
It's not the death that would bother her. It's the political consequences.
Perhaps. I think she wants to run for President and she is popular, sadly cause she is awful.
She will never get my vote. I liked her at one point. But then she joined Trump. I will never support any candidate who has supported Trump. It means they have no boundaries that they will not cross.
Max Blumenthal was the only reporter to get inside the closed-door speech of Nikki Haley at the far-right Council for National Policy. She's no moderate.
https://harpers.org/blog/2018/10/nikki-haley-at-the-council-for-national-policy/
paulsurovell said:
Max Blumenthal was the only reporter to get inside the closed-door speech of Nikki Haley at the far-right Council for National Policy. She's no moderate.
https://harpers.org/blog/2018/10/nikki-haley-at-the-council-for-national-policy/
She is horrible and extreme and thinking we need to be at war with Iran and putting gay people and people who cheat on their spouses to death. Also likes killing Palestinians. Also probably a puppet of Sheldon Adelson and friend to evangelicals. Do not know what the New York Times was thinking.
Though Saudi Arabia had also exploited its membership on the Human Rights Council to shield itself from scrutiny, Haley had hardly anything to say in her speech about the theocratic monarchy. This September, the Saudi government and the United Arab Emirates tried and failed to stop a UN Human Rights Council resolution to extend an investigation into their military assault on Yemen. Their faltering war to oust the Houthi militia from control over the northern half of the country has turned Yemen into the site of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, spawning an epidemic of cholera and plaguing large segments of the population with malnutrition. Haley has gone to excessive lengths to abet the Saudi–UAE military effort, partnering with officials from both countries to brand Iran as the lone source of the crisis.
Last December, inside a hangar at the Joint Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, Haley stood in front of the charred remnants of a ballistic missile fired by the Yemeni Houthi militia at Saudi Arabia’s King Khalid Airport, and pointed to this stage prop as evidence of Iranian backing for the Houthis. (A UN panel that investigated the missile found “no evidence as to the identity of [its] broker or supplier.”) Seated in the front row were the Saudi and Emirati diplomats, who apparently assisted Haley’s presentation by providing the missile hulk to Washington. She went on to join the Saudis and only eleven other nations in opposition to a UN Human Rights Council resolution condemning the “imposition of the death penalty as a sanction for specific forms of conduct, such as apostasy, blasphemy, adultery and consensual same-sex relations.” (Since the apparent assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi columnist for the Washington Post, which has created an international firestorm, Haley has made no statement.)
Haley avoided mentioning her special relationship with Saudi Arabia at the CNP, focusing instead on her relentless one-woman campaign to protect another Middle Eastern country from scrutiny for its serial human rights abuses. The state of Israel had been condemned in scores of UN resolutions over the years, she complained, while Iran had been reprimanded just nine times. Withdrawing from the Human Rights Council was the least America could do to uphold its duty to protect Israel, she said, inspiring gales of applause from the crowd. She earned more roars of approval when she touted the Trump Administration’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, a move that drove a nail into the coffin of the US-led process to establish a Palestinian state. The applause reached its peak when Haley boasted of the pivotal role she played in cutting off American aid to millions of destitute Palestinian refugees through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). I looked over at Gaffney, the veteran anti-Islam activist, and saw an ecstatic grin cross his face as Haley described the cuts.
A diplomat who was present for several meetings with members of Trump’s foreign policy team over UN-related matters told me that Haley formed a personal vendetta when the General Assembly voted to condemn Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. “The US will be taking names,” Haley rumbled before the December vote, vowing to punish nations that defied her boss. She then moved in to strangle the UNRWA, pushing for heavy cuts in US funding to the agency. In doing so, she appeared to be courting support from one of the most influential donors to the Republican Party. Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire confidant of Netanyahu who contributed $5 million to Trump’s inauguration, had been the largest donor to the 527 political organizations that Haley formed while serving as South Carolina’s governor, with $250,000 in 2016. Her legacy of pro-Israel rabble rousing at the United Nations virtually guaranteed that Adelson’s beneficence would continue and will likely expand if she embarks on a presidential run.
Haley’s choice of aides at the United Nations offered another indication that she saw the high-profile diplomatic post as a springboard to the White House. Her top advisor at the United Nations was not a foreign policy expert but a veteran Republican consultant from her home state named Jon Lerner. A former adviser to Republican Senator Marco Rubio, a neoconservative darling, Lerner identified his mentor as Arthur Finkelstein, the notoriously cutthroat Republican operative who advised Netanyahu’s 1996 run for Israeli prime minister and helped him cobble together his 2013 right-wing governing coalition.
Haley’s lonely fight against Israel’s enemies was calculated to appeal not only to the Likudnik GOP donors who saw the self-proclaimed Jewish state as their fortified home, but also to the evangelicals who viewed the country as a landing pad for the Messiah. These included Tim LaHaye, a CNP veteran who coauthored the best-selling Left Behind series: Armageddon fantasy novels that identify the UN secretary-general as the Antichrist. If the admiring treatment Haley received from the CNP was any indication, she could count on support from rapture-ready pastors across the country, along with the flock of grassroots Republicans they shepherd to the polls each election day.
paulsurovell said:
Max Blumenthal was the only reporter to get inside the closed-door speech of Nikki Haley at the far-right Council for National Policy. She's no moderate.
https://harpers.org/blog/2018/10/nikki-haley-at-the-council-for-national-policy/
Thanks for that link.
I especially liked his description of the right-wing looney-toons he encountered upon entering (including some serious ranting about the "Deep State").
I arrived at the conference after a panel on “the Deep State,” featuring James O’Keefe, the co-creator of the infamous ACORN video, and Tim Fitton, Judicial Watch president, had concluded. As I settled into a seat near the back of the Westin’s Grand Ballroom, a who’s who of the evangelical far right filed into the spacious auditorium. To my right sat Carol Swain, the African-American Vanderbilt University political science professor who blamed a “devil’s brew” of identity politics and multiculturalism for the mainstreaming of white nationalism. Ginni Thomas, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife, was greeting old friends a few rows away. Nearby, I spotted Star Parker, a self-proclaimed former “welfare cheat,” who named her book Pimps, Whores and Welfare Brats and recently branded the Democrats “the party of the Antichrist.” Frank Gaffney, who has raised millions to conduct an Islamophobic crusade and who helped orchestrate Trump’s Muslim travel ban, strode into the ballroom, where he was set to deliver a panel later on alongside a collection of Cold War-era hardliners. One of the few Catholics present amid the evangelicals was Frank Pavone, a fanatically anti-abortion priest who once filmed himself placing an aborted fetus on an altar while imploring followers to vote for Trump. And then there was Kenneth W. Starr, the former independent counsel and author of the lascivious Starr Report (which was in part drafted by Brett Kavanaugh) arriving at the CNP to hawk his new memoir of the Clinton investigation.
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Rep. Tulsi Gabbard says the Kashoggi murder should be an impetus to end the US-Saudi alliance and US arms sales to Saudi Arabia. Tulsi has been an outspoken critic of Saudi Arabia's pernicious role in the world, especially Syria and Yemen, for years.
We need to hear from Tulsi Gabbard more often.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1810/18/cg.01.html