While Asaad is a dictator, Tulsi believed the meeting to be necessary in order to fully understand the situation in the country. She eventually came away even more convinced that violence in the middle east must be ended. She believes it is up to the United States to lead the push for peace. Tulsi has long been an advocate for the need to halt arms sales to the region and to Syrian rebels because, often times, the weapons end up in the hands of terrorist groups.

This issue has long been at the forefront of Tulsi Gabbard’s platform. She is the leading voice of the anti-war wing of the Democratic Party. A fragment of the party that, once large and prominent, is shamefully small. So, I guess that it shouldn't be surprising that Ms. Gabbard has been absolutely lambasted by “moderate democrats” who claim Tulsi has all sorts of ulterior motives for her visit.

She has been accused of being a supporter of dictatorships, she has been accused of being a republican, she has been accused of being a self-serving fraud. And that is how insane the Democratic Party has become. The establishment Democrats have completely changed their positions on nearly everything over the last 8 years and now they are a morally bankrupt group of neocons wielding an army of angry twitter trolls that parrot any provided message against any perceived threat to the modus operandi of the status quo.

There are few in the Democratic party who have shown more integrity than Tulsi. She stepped down from her position as Vice Chair of the democratic party back in February of 2016, in order to fully support Bernie Sanders during a primary that she felt was unfair. She received waves of hate from the party rank-and-file for that, too. Stepping down, by the way, was exactly the right thing to do, as party officials are pledged to be unbiased during the primary race. Unfortunately, she was the only member of the DNC who gave up their position, while the rest of the party operated a literal extension of the Clinton campaign.