2 days ago
Nuclear War's Too Serious for a Tulsi Gabbard Video
Is Tulsi Gabbard running for a new political office? Did she just discover the horrific potential of nuclear weapons and wants to share it with the world? Or has she been watching too much Russia Today? It's hard to know what to think after watching the US director of national intelligence's depictions of nuclear Armageddon.
Gabbard's video clearly took preparation. She visited Hiroshima, in Japan, and the production values are top drawer. (One infelicitous exception: the word for Japan's nuclear survivors is hibakusha, not 'hibokusha.') She speaks earnestly to camera, stares pensively into the distance against beautiful vistas and shots of a nuclear bomb's terrifying consequences. The three big points she had to make were less impressive.
The first was that a nuclear war would be really, really, really, bad. All too true, but hardly a discovery. The second assertion was that the world is closer to annihilation than at any time in its history, which is wrong on the facts. And finally, that a nuclear apocalypse looms ever closer because — unlike 'we the people' — global elites and warmongers have bunkers, which is just bonkers.
