"So yes, I'm skeptical because we have to take at a premium the cost of these wars not only on the Syrian people and the people in the Middle East but the cost of these wars here, in the United States, at a time where we don't have money to build the roads that we need here in Hawaii or in other parts of the country," Gabbard said. "Why should we just blindly follow this escalation of a counterproductive regime change war?"