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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those of you who like Tulsi: what would you say to those of us who take her to be a fringey sort of spoiler who has an unconfortably cozy relationship with Assad? Would you just tell us that you WANT a fringey spoiler - or do you think you could convince us to take her seriously?[/quote]

I’d tell them to look at the war in Syria and ask who we are fighting for, against, and if we have interests worth killing and maiming our soldiers.

I happen to think we don’t have vital interests and should not be there.   I don’t think that is fringe at all.  I think it’s prudent and increasingly bipartisan.[/quote]

You can advocate for peace and non-intervention without being an apologist for a butcher of a dictator, which is what al-Assad is.  She doesn't sound particularly bright, and she sounds like a loose cannon.  
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/26/tulsi-gabbard-bashar-al-assad-syria-democrats

[quote]Democrats were silent on Thursday as Tulsi Gabbard, one of the party’s sitting lawmakers in Congress, announced that she had met with Bashar al-Assad during a trip to war-torn Syria and dismissed his entire opposition as “terrorists”.

Gabbard, a Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, disclosed her meeting with the Syrian president on Wednesday, during what her office called a “fact-finding” mission in the region.

“Initially I hadn’t planned on meeting him,” Gabbard told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “When the opportunity arose to meet with him, I did so, because I felt it’s important that if we profess to truly care about the Syrian people, about their suffering, then we’ve got to be able to meet with anyone that we need to if there is a possibility that we could achieve peace. And that’s exactly what we talked about.”

Democratic leaders were mum on the decision by one of their sitting lawmakers to meet with a dictator whom the US government has dubbed a war criminal for his use of chemical weapons against civilians.

Gabbard’s trip raised alarms over a potential violation of the Logan Act, a federal statute barring unauthorized individuals from conferring with a foreign government involved in a dispute with the US. The US currently has no diplomatic relations with Syria.[/quote][/quote]

Tawdry hit piece that mischaracterizes her positions.   Establishment payback for supporting Bernie.[/quote]

Yeah, sure. Whatever you need to do to justify her support of a murderous dictator.  al Assad has been using chemical weapons on his own people (confirmed by the UN). Most public officials have enough sense not to meet with war criminals.  Tulsi won't even admit al Assad is a war criminal.  
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/10/politics/tulsi-gabbard-syria-bashar-al-assad-war-criminal/index.html[/quote]

Tulsi would be the highest ranking military service person to be president since Eisenhower.

I think she knows what she is doing.[/quote]

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