My Senator, Tammy Duckworth, sure didn’t learn a single lesson about criminal war and reckless foreign policy from her Iraq war service.
She was parlayed during that service. Along with her horrific injury, she will have a likely lifetime congressional career, possibly even the presidency. Her claim to office is bellicose support of American exceptionalism causing havoc with many nations and worldwide disgust with American interventionism.
Not satisfied with promising NATO expansion on Russia’s borders which prompted their Ukraine invasion, she is now all in for implementing an Asian version of NATO to China’s borders. I guess those 300 or so US bases already ringing China aren’t sufficient. She appeared with Alaska Republican Senator Dan Sullivan on Meet The Press to boost the case for expanding NATO all the way to China’s neighborhood. NATO’s proposed expansion to Russia’s border with Ukraine provoked a Russian invasion that has largely destroyed Ukraine as a viable nation while killing upwards of a quarter million.
She appears oblivious that the US Proxy War in Europe has funneled over a hundred billion in US treasure to keep Ukrainians dying while neglecting the critical needs of the US homeland. Does Duckworth really think Proxy War Asia will work out any better? She’s got the US on track to funnel another hundred billion in military and economic aid….this time to Taiwan. Somehow the prospect of nuclear brinkmanship with the 2 other largest nuclear powers never enters her policy positions.
Senator Duckworth has spent every one of her 3,650 days in the House and Senate championing US exceptionalism that has killed hundreds of thousands. Had she joined Veterans for Peace instead of Congress, she’d have done more for the cause of peace and security for America and the world on Day 1 than she’s done every day for the past 10 years.
I do not believe Walt is going to campaign for Tammy anytime soon.
She’s quite the war monger…..
Yes, she’s a warmonger. She’s the John McCain of the Democratic Party. One war is not good enough for her, she wants them to go on forever.
Everyone serving in the military knows war is hell. Some people want to get out of the military because of that. Other people serving in the military want wars to go on forever and are bloodthirsty killers.
There was a time when I admired her. No more. She is crazed about war, American hubris, the myth of America.
She’s always been a fraud.
Unfortunately, her having lost both her legs in Iraq kicks he up a notch (pun intended) on the automatic respect for Veterans meter that is so prevalent in our society today. Jeez, if she lost her legs in a war and is still a vocal warmonger, how can we disagree with a hero? Similar to dead McCain always playing the POW sympathy card.
I feel sorry for her. She lost the best part of her body.