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1/ Tulsi is not an Assad supporter; she calls him "a brutal dictator." She's attacked for meeting w/ Assad & opposing the US-backed proxy war, which tore Syria apart & relied on far-right jihadists to do so. So it's worth asking: who, & what, are Tulsi's detractors supporting? 
2/ When Brett McGurk, the then-US envoy to the anti-ISIS coalition, pointed out in July 2017 that "Idlib Province is the largest Al Qaeda safe haven since 9/11," was he supporting the Assad regime too?
3/ When Robert F. Worth of the NYT reported that Aleppo under US-backed jihadist militias was "almost as bad" as ISIS-controlled Raqqa, part of "a rebellion that is corrupt, brutal and compromised by foreign sponsors", was he backing Assad? nytimes.com/2017/05/24/mag…
4/ When Robert F. Worth also reported that had rebels been able to capture the city of Latakia, the "result would almost certainly have been sectarian mass murder" of Alawites, was he reporting that because he supports the Assad regime?
5/ Gabbard, for some odd reason, is seen as an apologist for a person whom she herself calls "a brutal dictator." The people who level this charge don't see the irony in their direct or tacit support for the crimes of the militants that Gabbard doesn't want the US to enable.
