 One of my favorite moments of the first debate was this exchange between Tulsi Gabbard and Tim Ryan because when it comes to the issue of foreign policy, whenever that topic came up we needed to hear from Tulsi Gabbard desperately because she is pushing the overton window to the left within the Democratic Party who has grown increasingly hawkish and There's a lot of people who just aren't well-versed on US imperialism. They don't know about US interventionism They fall for this trap like better a work of us the unique to intervene for quote-unquote Humanitarian reasons which the United States always makes matters worse so we needed to desperately hear from Tulsi Gabbard and more importantly we needed a moment that Would allow her to demonstrate her knowledge on this subject particularly Or preferably rather one where she calls out someone who's a hawk and boy Did she deliver because in this clip? I'm about to play for you. She thoroughly dismantled the argument of Tim Ryan who is pushing for intervention and Holy shit She ripped my new asshole take a look. I've been in Congress 17 years and 12 of those years I've sat on the armed services committee. They're the defense appropriations committee or the armed services committee And the lesson that I've learned over the years is that you have to stay engaged in these situations Nobody likes it. It's long. It's tedious But right now we have so I would say we must be engaged in this We must have our State Department engaged We must have our military engaged to the state to the extent they need to be but the reality of it is this President doesn't even have people appointed in the State Department to deal with these things whether we're talking about Central America Whether we're talking about Iran whether we're talking about Afghanistan. We've got to be completely engaged And here's why because these flare-ups Distract us from the real problems in the country if we're getting a drone shot down for a hundred and thirty million Dollars because the president is distracted. That's a hundred and thirty million dollars that we could be spending in places like Youngstown, Ohio or Flint, Michigan or read or rebuilding Congress or building I'm gonna give you 30 seconds actually to jump off what he said he described What you will tell the parents of those two soldiers who were just killed in Afghanistan what we just have to be engaged As a soldier, I will tell you that answer is Unacceptable we have to bring our troops home from Afghanistan We are in a place in Afghanistan where we have lost so many lives We've spent so much money money that's coming out of every one of our pockets money That should be going into communities here at home meeting the needs of the people here at home We are no better off in Afghanistan today than we were when this war began This is why it's so important to have a president and commander-in-chief Who knows the cost of war and who's ready to do the job on day one? I am ready to do that job when I walk into the oval I'm gonna go down the line here. Well, you know what you felt you felt like she was responding you get 30 seconds I hear what you're saying. I would just say I don't want to be I don't want to be engaged I wish we were spending all this money in places that I've represented that have been completely forgotten and we were rebuilding But the reality of it is that the United States isn't engaged the Taliban will grow and they won't have Bigger bolder terrorist acts. We have got to have some present there To Afghanistan thinking that we're going to somehow squash this Taliban When we weren't in there they started flying planes into our buildings, so I'm just saying right now We Was protecting those people who are plotting against us all I'm saying is if we want to go in To elections and we want to say that we got a withdrawal from the world. That's what President Trump is saying. We can't I would Arabia That was so embarrassing for Tim Ryan like he wasn't doing terribly throughout this debate but When he got that wrong and she called him out for it I cringed for him because that's the moment you don't want to have if you're Trying to compete to be commander-in-chief these really simple details here. You just don't want to mess them up and She knows her shit when it comes to foreign policy. She's the best on this issue out of everyone and When she strikes she strikes hard So we got a glimpse of how powerful Tulsi Gabbard could be I want to see more of this because we need all of these hawks in the Democratic Party Who are pushing for intervention and what he was pushing for was effectively never ending war in Afghanistan We need these people to be exposed as the hawks that they are so Tulsi Gabbard here She did phenomenally well, and I am so glad that this moment happened Um, this was undoubtedly the best moment of the night for her one of my favorite moments of the entire debate because it was That great. This was probably Besides all of the collective shitting on bed Oh the you know one of the biggest moments of the night in terms of destroying someone like if you want to come Up with that cliche X gets destroyed by Y in epic debate This was basically that moment where somebody They legitimately got destroyed and Tulsi handed him his ass. It was so glorious. Thank you Tulsi for that I truly enjoyed every moment of it. However, someone who didn't enjoy Tim Ryan getting destroyed is Tim Ryan because immediately after the debate was over his team put out this statement About the exchange quote while making a point as to why America can't seed its International leadership and retreat from around the world Tim was Interrupted by representative Tulsi Gabbard when he tried to answer her She contorted a factual point Tim was making about the Taliban being complicit in the 9-11 attacks by providing training bases and refuge for Al Qaeda and its leaders the characterization that Tim Ryan doesn't know who is responsible for the attacks of the 9-11 is simply unfair Reporting further we continue to reject Gabbard's isolationism and her misguided beliefs on foreign policy We refuse to be lectured by someone who thinks it's okay to dine with murderous dictators like Sirius Bashar al-Assad Who used chemical weapons on his own people now on top of that he told a reporter? I personally don't need to be lectured by someone who's dining with the dictator who gassed kids now He's clearly angry and he's literally going out of his way to smear Tulsi Gabbard because she owned him And he's being an incredibly sore loser But I think that nothing will summarize the situation better than this Yeah