Tulsi Gabbard on Monday once again shared her views on “radical Islam” with a national audience.
Greta Van Susteren, host of Fox News channel’s “On the Record,” asked the Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii for her reaction to the beheadings in Libya committed by members of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL.
Gabbard, speaking from Honolulu, said this:
“I think it’s important for us to learn what’s — from what’s happening here. It’s important for the leaders of our country to recognize the opportunity that exists here. Number one, to look at the fact that this execution in Libya, the presence of ISIS continuing to grow in their strength and in their territory in Libya specifically would not have happened if our leaders, both in Congress from both parties and the administration had not organized and led the charge to attack and overthrow Gaddafi.
“This goes to the core of the problem here. You and I have talked about this before. And that is we are not recognizing who our enemy is. And what is driving them and the result of exactly what happened in Libya. …”
Gabbard said she hoped American leaders would learn from the Libyan attack and recognize that what is happening in Libya — but also in Iraq and Syria — stems from the push for regime change and the Obama administration’s failure to recognize that “the enemy” adheres to a radical Islamic ideology.
Van Susteren told Gabbard she looked forward to the congresswoman’s return to Washington, D.C., to be “the voice to get this debate moving.”
The congresswoman later retweeted out the news of her appearance on Fox, reiterating what she thinks the U.S. should do about the crises in the Middle East:
.@TulsiGabbard: Our strategy to defeat #ISIS needs 3 things: 1)Go in & HIT HARD 2)Political solution; 3)Recognize ideological war @FoxNews
— Greta Van Susteren (@greta) February 17, 2015
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