Assad apologist Tulsi Gabbard is not the best person to lecture on foreign policy morality

Now don’t get me wrong. It is certainly possible (although I don’t share that sentiment) to argue that President Trump is giving excessive cover to the Saudi regime over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. American values matter greatly and what Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s cronies did to Khashoggi was a moral disgrace. However, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, isn’t exactly a great maestro of moral leadership in foreign policy. As Meghan McCain pointed out.

McCain is absolutely right, but I don’t think she goes far enough. The reality of what Gabbard has done with Assad, whom she has visited and defended in public, isn’t just hypocritical, it’s morally foul. That makes Gabbard far different from Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., for example, who also ardently opposes any kind of effort to confront Assad’s regime. Because Paul hasn’t rendered himself a political servant for Assad, he’s simply opposed U.S. policy toward Syria. Gabbard, however, has basically spent the past few years morphing into an active member of the Syrian Baath party’s tolerated side party. In their not-so-fine company she has attended “fact-finding” trips to Syria. This has included happy meetings with Bashar Assad, who has gassed, starved, barrel bombed, tortured, and hanged at least 200,000 of his own people.

Gabbard has every right to be an idiot. But by lending her congressional credibility to Assad, the congresswoman nuked American morality in order to get a few photos with a tyrant.

And it must also be said that Assad is far worse than the Saudi crown prince and Khashoggi slaying architect Mohammed bin Salman. Because where the crown prince murders select enemies in brutal fashion, he is at least reforming his society and economy. Assad? He is simply obliterating everyone who will not kneel at his feet.

Put simply, when it comes to the moral foreign policy school, Tulsi Gabbard’s shallow wit deserves no quarter.