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THE TULSI GABBARD BASHAR AL-ASSAD CONTROVERSY EXPLAINED
圖爾西·加巴德·巴沙爾·阿薩德的爭議得到了解釋
BY TOM O'CONNOR
作者：湯姆·奧康納
Hawaii Representative Tulsi Gabbard got a massive popularity boost for her prospective path to the presidency on Wednesday when she attacked fellow Democrat Senator Kamala Harris' record as California's attorney general, but it wasn't long before an entirely different figure altogether resurfaced in her limelight—Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
周三，夏威夷眾議員圖爾西·加巴德攻擊民主黨參議員卡瑪拉·哈里斯擔任加州司法部長的記錄，這大大提升了她的人氣。但沒過多久，另一個完全不同的人物——敘利亞總統巴沙爾·阿薩德——重新出現在她面前。
After meeting the Syrian leader on a quiet "fact-finding" mission in early 2017, his image in the U.S. as an alleged war criminal and human rights abuser followed Gabbard home and has been a frequent target of criticism for her. Two and a half years later, she has refused to apologize for what she has argued was an effort to better understand the conflict in Syria, where various international actors including the U.S. have helped to fuel an eight-year civil war over competing geopolitical interests.
2017年初，在與敘利亞領導人進行了一次安靜的“事實調查”任務后，他在美國被指是戰爭罪犯和踐踏人權者的形象跟隨加巴德回國，并經常成為她的批評對象。兩年半后，她拒絕為她所說的旨在更好地理解敘利亞沖突的努力道歉。在敘利亞，包括美國在內的各種國際行為體在相互競爭的地緣政治利益的推動下，助長了持續八年的內戰。
Gabbard again had to defend herself following Tuesday's Democratic debate, where she first accused Harris of having "blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so" and of prolonging sentences to use inmates as "cheap labor," among other charges during her time as California's top attorney. Gabbard argued: "The people who suffered under your reign as prosecutor, you owe them an apology."
在周二的民主黨辯論后，加巴德再次不得不為自己辯護。她在辯論中首次指控哈里斯“阻止了本可以讓一名無辜男子免于死刑的證據，直到法院強迫她這么做”，還有在擔任加州首席檢察官期間，將囚犯作為“廉價勞動力”而延長刑期。加巴德辯稱:“在你擔任檢察官期間遭受苦難的人民，你應該向他們道歉。”
The remarks were met with applause both at the venue and across social media and were among the highlights of Wednesday's war of words, but following the event, Harris went after Gabbard's own background in an interview with CNN.
這番話在會場和社交媒體上都得到了熱烈的掌聲，也是周三“口水戰”的亮點之一。但在事件發生后，哈里斯在接受CNN采訪時談到了加巴德自己的背景。
