U.S. DNI GABBARD SAYS ‘REGIME CHANGE’ ERA OVER, BLAMES OLD FOREIGN POLICY FOR RISE OF TERROR GROUPS

Tulsi Gabbard praises Trump’s ‘deal-driven’ approach, calls decades of US intervention counterproductive.

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US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard asserted that America’s discredited era of “regime change or nation building” is firmly behind it, describing decades of foreign policy as a “counterproductive and endless cycle”.

Speaking at the opening debate of the Manama Dialogue, organised by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in Bahrain on Friday, Gabbard argued that decades of Washington's interventionist foreign policies had backfired--breeding instability, draining trillions of dollars, and even fuelling the rise of “Islamist terrorist groups like ISIS”.

She further credited President Donald Trump’s “pragmatic, deal-driven” approach with steering US foreign policy away from this failed model.