{"id":51489,"date":"2025-02-13T07:31:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T15:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=51489"},"modified":"2025-02-13T13:49:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T21:49:58","slug":"tulsi-gabbard-vs-the-threat-of-a-warmongering-military-industrial-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/13\/tulsi-gabbard-vs-the-threat-of-a-warmongering-military-industrial-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"Tulsi Gabbard vs. the &#8216;Threat of a Warmongering Military-Industrial Complex&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"https:\/\/bracingviews.substack.com\/\">Bracing Views<\/a> with the author\u2019s permission.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard is America\u2019s Director of National Intelligence. Here\u2019s a part of the ceremony, with President Trump\u2019s introduction:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ndwlDKclI6k?si=Q_PYDHvO0gJLtqrK\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What struck me in watching the short ceremony was Trump\u2019s words about \u201cthe threat of a warmongering military-industrial complex.\u201d Bold words indeed, as well as his call for Tulsi Gabbard to \u201cshrink the bloated bureaucracy\u201d in DC.<\/p>\n<p>In her brief remarks, Tulsi mentioned an almost forbidden word in DC: peace. She mentioned war as an absolute last resort rather than the first action selected by the \u201cwarmongering\u201d (Trump\u2019s word) military-industrial complex. I find that remarkable as well as encouraging.<\/p>\n<p>There are <a href=\"https:\/\/bracingviews.substack.com\/p\/tulsi-gabbard-a-smart-choice-as-director\" rel=\"\">many reasons<\/a> why I like Tulsi as DNI, but the biggest one is this: She has President Trump\u2019s respect. He likes her. Meaning he\u2019ll listen to her when she briefs him on a daily basis about the threats facing America and the options he has to address those threats.<\/p>\n<p>In his first term as president, Trump was notorious for not caring much about his daily intelligence briefing. Tulsi will change that \u2013 and that and her commitment to military action as a last resort is again highly encouraging.<\/p>\n<p><em>William J. Astore, a retired lieutenant colonel (USAF), professor of history, and a senior fellow at the Eisenhower Media Network (EMN), an organization of critical veteran military and national security professionals. His personal substack is <a href=\"https:\/\/bracingviews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Bracing Views<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author\u2019s permission. Former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard is America\u2019s Director of National Intelligence. Here\u2019s a part of the ceremony, with President Trump\u2019s introduction: What struck me in watching the short ceremony was Trump\u2019s words about \u201cthe threat of a warmongering military-industrial complex.\u201d Bold words indeed, as well as his call [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[758],"class_list":["post-51489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":"Will Tulsi Gabbard \"shrink the bloated bureaucracy\" in DC?"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51489"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51493,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51489\/revisions\/51493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51489"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=51489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}