Jewish Daily Forward: David Duke supports Tulsi Gabbard, therefore she is wrong!

Shouldn’t David Duke, Richard Spencer, and other Americans support Tulsi Gabbard's effort to stop perpetual wars in the Middle East? Wouldn’t it be stupid if they don’t applaud her political sensibility?

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…by Jonas E. Alexis

Whenever I want to be entertained, I sometimes sit back and observe some of the illogical leaps and complete absurdity in the political and intellectual landscape. Sometimes it would get so bad that I would end up asking myself,

“Why can’t these people apply simple logic and common sense? Why do people want to get even a high school education after all? How can those people not see the logical or fundamental implications of their own positions? Is it really that hard to sit down and start examining the logical endpoint of one’s own assumptions? Do these people really care about truth and logic and consistency at all? Or do they just want to insult logic and reason?”

People who take logic and reason seriously always try to follow an argument to its logical conclusion and see where the argument really leads. However, logic is a frightening thing, particularly when you subscribe to an ideology which doesn’t allow you to follow your own system to its ultimate conclusions. The reason you and I can come to an agreement about certain issues is because of logic, which has numerous branches. Deductive and inductive arguments are part of logic.

Now, what qualifies as a good deductive argument? Simple. For a valid deductive argument to be a good one, the premises of the argument has to be more probable or plausible than its denials. As a corollary, if the premises of a deductive argument are true and the conclusion is based on the premises and on the rule of logic, then we have a good deductive argument. A classic example is simply this:



All men are mortal

Socrates is a man

Therefore, Socrates is mortal

We have good reasons to believe that both premises are true, therefore the conclusion is also true. It’s just that simple. These simple rules of logic have been in existence since human beings came into being, and we certainly cannot function without them. So the anytime people present premises or statements that they say lead to certain conclusions, then it is an argument, but that does not necessarily mean that the argument is valid. For example, let’s present the following statements:

Greek is a language

Socrates was Greek

Therefore, Socrates was a language

Does the argument really follow? The answer is no. This is known as the fallacy of equivocation in logic. Do the media and puppets of the current regime present premises which lead to bad conclusions? Of course.

The Jewish Daily Forward has recently posted an article saying that David Duke, Richard Spencer, and the Daily Stomer “have taken credit for [ Tulsi Gabbard’s] improved fortunes. [They] took credit in April for Gabbard reaching the 65,000 donor threshold to qualify for the debates…”[1]

The magazine continues to say:

“This isn’t the first time Gabbard has attracted such support. White nationalist leaders David Duke and Richard have made favorable statements about the candidate. The white nationalists generally cite Gabbard’s isolationist views, her 2017 meeting with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and her criticisms of Barack Obama and other Democrats for not using the phrase ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’ ‘Tulsi Gabbard for President. Finally a candidate who will actually put America First rather than Israel First!’ Duke tweeted in February.”

The Daily Beast essentially said the same thing back in January of this year, and Politico magazine repeated what was already said months ago.[2]

Well, what does David Duke or Richard Spencer or the Daily Stormer have to do with the message that Gabbard is articulating? Absolutely nothing! Does the Jewish Daily Forward mean to tell us that Gabbard actually contacted those people to get their opinions on certain issues? Or is Gabbard saying something that is universally in America? Is she trying to articulate what the average American is thinking?

Let’s take the argument to an extreme here. If Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin says that two plus two is four, then has the statement become categorically false because Stalin says it? You see, the reasoning behind the article in the Jewish Daily Forward simply doesn’t make sense at all.

It is true that perpetual wars lead to perpetual disasters in the Middle East and elsewhere. Gabbard is a military veteran and knows what happened to Iraq. Overthrowing Saddam led to misery and suffering both in Iraq itself and in America. The disaster, as we have documented in the past, will cost America at least six trillion dollars.[3] Gabbard’s message can be heard loud and clear:

“We must stand up against powerful politicians from both parties, who sit in their ivory towers, thinking up new wars to wage, new places for people to die, wasting trillions of our tax payer dollars, hundreds of thousands of lives and undermining our economy, our security, and destroying our middle class.”

Virtually every single thinking American will agree. I have already put my stamp of approval on the statement. And if you think Gabbard is mistaken here, then let’s just do a brief historical background here.

In 2010, the Iraq war logs revealed that there were at least 15,000 civilian deaths that were unrecorded.[4] It is a lot worse today. After the war, Americans had to introduce Israeli-style torture in places like Abu Ghraib, and forcing prisoners to have sex with one another and sodomizing teenagers was fair game.[5]

Now consider this: the estimate of lives lost in the war in Iraq alone is between 100,000 to 600,000, including thousands of civilians. In 2003, at least 12,000 civilians lost their lives. The first three years of the war produced between 104,000 and 223,000 civilian deaths.

When it was over, 2.3 million Iraqis had been forced to flee their homes and towns; by 2008, another 2.7 million Iraqis were displaced, and nearly half a million civilians ended up losing their lives.[6] Thousands upon thousands of other people went missing by 2008.[7] This is out of a total Iraqi population of about 30 million people.[8]

When the war was over, sectarian violence and car bombings were rampant—almost every day.[9] The Iraq war itself shook the entire nation and created havoc even by 2006.[10] Factions of society that once coexisted were dismantled.

In a nutshell, Iraq was in decay. Buildings and farmlands were destroyed.[11] And the fringe benefits of the war? Between 300,000 and 360,000 veterans returned home with brain injuries,[12] some of which went untreated.[13]

By 2005, more than 6,000 soldiers serving in Iraq committed suicide.[14] In 2012, more soldiers committed suicide than died in combat,[15] making it the year with the highest suicide rate since 2001.[16]

Torture was also routine in Afghanistan, where adolescents were beaten with hoses “and pipes and threats of sodomy.”[17] These acts were not done in the dark. Cambridge University published similar reports in a book that is more than 1200 pages long.[18] These acts were also testified to by psychiatrists such as Terry Kupers.[19]

So shouldn’t Duke, Spencer, and other Americans support Gabbard for that reason? Wouldn’t it be stupid if they don’t applaud her legitimate effort to stop perpetual wars? Does the Jewish Daily Forward want people to continue to prostrate before the war machine, the Israeli regime, and the Neoconservative ideology? And do they mean to tell us that Duke is more wicked than people like Sheldon Adelson, the man who was accused of spreading prostitution in China and buying politicians in the United States? Do they mean to tell us that Benjamin Netanyahu is more virtuous than David Duke? As far as we know, David Duke hasn’t killed a single person. David Duke is not saying that the United States needs to invade Iran. In fact, he is saying the opposite.

But Netanyahu is responsible for the deaths of thousands of lives in the Middle East. He is responsible for the debacles Iraq and Afghanistan, and he is personally responsible for the destruction of lives in Syria. If the Jewish Daily Forward needs to be serious, then they need to be concerned about the man who has blood all over his hands.


  • [1] Aiden Pink, “Tulsi Gabbard Is Rising In The Polls, But Can’t Shake Neo-Nazi Support,” Forward, August 6, 2019.
  • [2] “Why Conservative Media and the Far Right Love Tulsi Gabbard for President,” Daily Beast, January 15, 2019; “Tulsi Gabbard’s Daredevil Act,” Politico, August 8, 2019.
  • [3] Ernesto Londono, “Study: Iraq, Afghan war costs to top $4 trillion,” Washington Post, March 28, 2013; Bob Dreyfuss, The $6 Trillion Wars,” The Nation, March 29, 2013; “Iraq War Cost U.S. More Than $2 Trillion, Could Grow to $6 Trillion, Says Watson Institute Study,” Huffington Post, May 14, 2013; Mark Thompson, “The $5 Trillion War on Terror,” Time, June 29, 2011; “Iraq war cost: $6 trillion. What else could have been done?,” LA Times, March 18, 2013.
  • [4] David Leigh, “Iraq War Logs Reveal 15,000 Previously Unlisted Civilian Deaths,” Guardian, Oct. 22, 2010.
  • [5] See Mark Danner, Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror (New York: New York Review of Books, 2004).
  • [6] Mark Kukis, Voices from Iraq: A People’s History, 2003-2009 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011), xvii.
  • [7] Ibid.
  • [8] Ibid.
  • [9] Ibid., xiii.
  • [10] Ibid., xiv.
  • [11] Ibid.
  • [12] Gregg Zoroya, “360,000 Veterans May Have Brain Injuries,” USA Today, Mar. 5, 3009; Denise Grady, “Brain Injuries Are Seen in New Scans of Veterans,” NY Times, Jun. 1, 2011; “Mental Health  Injuries Scar 300,000 US Troops,” MSNBC, Apr. 17, 2008.
  • [13] Lizette Alvarez, “War Veterans’ Concussions are Often Overlooked,” NY Times, Aug. 25, 2008.
  • [14] Armen Keteyian, “VA Hid Suicide Risk, Internal Emails Show,” CBC News, Jul. 30, 2010.
  • [15] Allison Churchill, “Military Losing More Troops to Suicide than Combat,” Business Insider, Oct. 25, 2012; Helen Pow, “More US Troops Committing Suicide Than Being Killed Fighting in Afghanistan,” Daily Mail, Oct. 24, 2012.
  • [16] Kelley Vlahos, “Surviving War, Falling to Suicide,” American Conservative, Jan. 1, 2012; James Dao and Andrew W. Lehren, “Baffling Rise in Suicides Plagues US Military,” NY Times, May 15, 2013.
  • [17] Alissa J. Rubin, “Anti-Torture Efforts in Afghanistan Failed, UN Says,” NY Times, Jan. 20, 2013
  • [18] See Karen J. Geenberg and Joshua L. Dratel, eds., The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
  • [19] Lila Rajiva, The Language of Empire: Abu Ghraib and the American Media (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2005), 167.

 

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13 COMMENTS

  1. Maggie Albright, are you still happy with the deaths of 500,000 children to stop Saddam Hussein from getting nuclear weapons? But wait a minute, Saddam never even came close to building nukes, ever. Had he been able to he would still be floating in his hot tub, smoking Cuban cigars. The thugs that are trying to take over the world have bent and stretched reality, using their propaganda apparatus that some people still consider credible. People may live their entire life and never hear the truth about anything, even once.

  2. Ian, Tulsi speaks of “those who attacked Our Country on 9/11” as her mission.
    I know who attacked US as do you. She’s smart enough to not give them the sound bite to beat her with.
    I want a President who is a better strategist than I am.

    Aloha!

    • Words are cheap, and in the case of a politician, so cheap as to be bereft of meaning. Tulsi gets funding from the arch Neocon/pro-Israel Adelson family, she has close relationships with some of the most pernicious, pro-Israel traitors in the US, this means far, far more than anything she may have said. I don’t know all the details of her exact relationships with these Neocon/pro-Israel associates, but the fact she keeps such company is a huge red flag that bears investigating.

  3. Toby ; Iran/Iraq imposed war , the stat of 100,000 Iranian victims you noted is the fraction of the real number which is 850000 to 1 million

  4. Unrelated but as Toby brought the subject up. Has anyone else heard about the Dayton shooter’s reported death in Connecticut back in 2014?. Beforeitsnews.com ran a piece about it with links to support the accusation. And El Paso is fishy too. What person decides to go to a public place intent on killing as many as possible, yet wears eye and ear protection? Someone who knows he’s going to survive. That’s my guess. Armed with an AK47 with one 30 round magazine he kills 21 and wounds 30. Magic bullet theory all over again. There was definitely more than 1 shooter.

  5. Tulsi’s associations with lead Zionists is certainly troubling. But if your looking for a foil to Trump, who else is out there. Every other democrat candidate is sorely lacking the qualities American’s should be looking for. And they all kiss Israeli butt. Maybe Tulsi should just change parties.

  6. The other day Michael Moore stated his opinion that the only person who could beat Trump is Michelle Obama. I think he is right.

    • A lot of people are speculating about that now, including the Q community. I also agree, she (it) is the only one who has a chance. Of course, no one has a chance if Trump eliminates vote fraud by 2020. According to Q, everything necessary to win will be dealt with by then, but that’s just a prediction at this point.

      Also, the Obamas are rolling out a massive propaganda operation starting on August 21st via Netflix: https://www.businessinsider.com/obama-netflix-movies-and-tv-shows-fifth-risk-american-factory-2019-4

      This will probably the launch pad for Michael’s late entry into the race, after Biden finally strokes out and Bernie Panders concedes as usual. These new shows will give the media an excuse to give Obama double the amount of coverage. It will be wall to wall Obamas everywhere, like a bad stench that you can’t get out of the carpet.

      I really hope Q is right, but honestly, I’m starting to feel more and more like Trump is just another grand deception being used to pop the conservative/patriot ‘balloon’ one last time for the alleged anti Christ shows up, which would seem to be Barrack Obama at this point. Michael could appoint him as ambassador to the U.N., after which he would be elected as head, and then we have our world government with the AC running the show.

      I don’t see anything at this point in time to suggest that the prophecies have been averted.

  7. The mess in Iraq is what happens to the states that are patsy’s for the US and Israel. We didn’t attack Saddam because he was shielding (Saudi) terrorists, we went after him to keep him quiet about how the US and Israel gave him components of his CW program, sarin, help weaponizing a batch and then instructions to attack Iran, but co-mingled with conventional weapons.

    He did as the US, Israel and NEO’s demanded of him, killing 100,000 Iranians. Leaving this aggression out of the picture makes aggressors into victims. Preventing it being known to the world is fully documented in the Reagan Papers. It made me sick to think I voted for the mass murderer, Reagan, further promoting Israel murdering it’s neighbors with the Saudi’s. Is it any wonder they hate Israel and the USA? Killing 100,000 with US and Israel CW is a dam good reason.

    Also…after Saddam attacked Iran we knew exactly how much CW he had left. He may have used 90% of it and the bulk of what remained was used against the Kurds. Then, knowing he had depleted his CW (and any nuke program was a wet dream)….the patsy was eliminated so he couldn’t tell his story.

    • Notice with nearly all the “terrorist” attacks, we have a very close method (killing the patsy after they do a heinous act) by US intel, setting a honey trap, providing weak people with propaganda, weapons, and a plan?

      Was the dude in Dayton a brother that was mad his sister was dating a black guy, decided to kill her, him and others is the

  8. The dem candidate field is so disappointing. The debates are a real turn off. Picking a winner is like picking the dog that has the lest fleas.

    • Why don’t people who like Tulsi notice her extremely disturbing close associations with Miriam Adelson and Rabbi Shmuely Boteach. Then there’s the fact her father is rabidly anti-Moslem. She’s far too friendly with pro-Israel figures.

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