Welcome to Pushback. I'm Aaron Mate. I want to talk about Syria today, which is back in the

news and the aftermath of Biden's military strike on a Shiite militant group near the Iraq-Syria border.

There has been some criticism of Biden, even from members of

Congress on the Democratic side, because he took the strike without congressional authorization,

and he's been reminded of the War Powers Act. But I want to look today at how this criticism

is narrow and short-sighted and misses what is really the big U.S. scandal in

Syria, which is ongoing and began under the Obama administration, continued under Trump,

and by all appearances is now continuing under Biden as well. And the person who called this out

was someone who was on the national stage, but is now no longer in Congress. And that is the

former Democratic Congress member Tulsi Gabbard. And she released a video addressing her

colleagues in Congress, her former colleagues in Congress,

and pointing out that Biden's strike in Syria is far from the most serious scandal when it comes to U.S. policy in Syria today.

I am glad to hear that some of my former colleagues in Congress are speaking out against the recent unconstitutional air strikes in Syria.

But they're ignoring the bigger issue.

The regime change war, the United States continues to wage in Syria using al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, HTS terrorists as our proxy ground force and who now occupy and control the city of Idlib, imposing Sharia law and cleansing the area of most Christians and religious minorities.

The Biden administration continues to use our military to illegally occupy Northeastern Syria to, quote, take the oil,

as Trump so crassly, but honestly put it, violating international law.

Now, modern day siege of draconian embargo and sanctions, similar to what the Saudi- U.S. alliance employed in Yemen is causing

death and suffering for millions of innocent Syrians, depriving them of things like food,

medicine, clean water, energy, warmth, and making it impossible for the Syrian people to try to begin to rebuild their war-torn country.

Now, what Tulsi Gabbard said there is important.

She basically stands alone as a prominent political figure in being willing to not just criticize the U.S. dirty war and sanctions on Syria, but even to

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