mo4ch:>Gabbard stands her ground on Syria, says she doesn't regret meeting Assad | Mo4ch News

Democratic presidential challenger Tulsi Gabbard has refused to budge on her anti-war views and apologize for her meeting Syrian President Bashar Assad in 2017, defending dialogue as the "only alternative" to "more war."Anti-war congresswoman and Iraq veteran Gabbard (D-Hawaii) was pilloried by mainstream media as well as the political establishment, both on the left and the right, for going on a privately-funded fact-finding trip to Syria in January 2017, during which she visited Aleppo and met with President Assad.READ MORE: ‘Putin puppet’ vs ‘Assad shill’: Dems & Reps unite in panic over Gabbard challenging Trump in 2020Gabbard was incessantly labelled "Assad apologist" and "Putin puppet," the nicknames that have resurfaced after she announced her presidential bid earlier in January. But rather than renouncing the perceived "ills" to rally some mainstream support, Gabbard told CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday that she did not reg…