Posted on 04/05/2007 9:53:02 AM PDT by Kitten Festival
In visiting Syria this week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi no doubt meant well. She wants dialogue. As a woman, mother, and now the third-highest-ranking elected official in American politics, she has achieved a great deal in life by talking with people. On this trip she made a point of showing how easy it is to interact with Syrians, with an itinerary that included a visit to a souk in Damascus - where she was photographed holding out her hand while a cheerful vendor gave her some nuts.
Unfortunately, that photo-op sums up the best that can be said about Pelosi's trip: Nuts.
Having done her shopping, Pelosi went on, against the express wishes of the White House, to talk with President Bashar Assad. Perched on pillowed armchairs, chatting away, they provided yet another photo-op - a tableau implying that Assad is no monster, but in many ways a reasonable fellow, just like the rest of us. Pelosi emerged to announce that she had expressed her concerns on various fronts and that Assad is now willing to hold peace talks with Israel.
This is not just nutty politics; it is dangerous. For Pelosi, this may count as interaction. But for Assad's regime in Syria, this amounts to chumps on pilgrimage.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Whoa! Joining the WaPo in the smackdown! Good stuff!
and well deserved. All those amateur diplomats in the DNC thinking that if only ‘they’ were in power they could make the enemies of democracy see the light. And, as usual, they end up being propaganda tools for our enemies. Maybe Nancy can go to North Korea and compare hairstyles with Kim Jong Il.
Pelosi is the perfect front person for the dumocrat party
Nuts? No. Arrogant and foolish, YES!
HA!
Pelosi IS nuts, regardless of where she is and who she sees........
Hanoi Jane Fonda must be proud
AssHat and his DUmmie!.......
Pelosi's main purpose in visiting Syria was to undermine the President by advertising American disunity in a time of war. Well-meaning, that isn't.
Men and fathers, on the other hand, manage to achieve a lot in life by not talking to people, I suppose. :-)
Well, to the nuts and sociopaths who have put Pelosi in office (viz. the Left), the establishment of a shadow government makes sense, inasmuch as “Bush lied and stole the Presidency” et al. The morons believe all this propaganda. The sociopaths couldn’t be more delighted. As for Nancy, in her confused and clouded world she no doubt thinks of Neville Chamberlain as one of history’s great successes.
That is good to have papers calling Pelosi on this. Drudge has been featuring this prominantly. Maybe Pelosi will start to be noticed. I am sure many voters before the 06 election had no idea about Pelosi as Speaker or anything else.
Anthony Eden, Chamberlain’s foreign secretary, did not agree with the policy of appeasement and resigned in February, 1938. Eden was replaced by Lord Halifax who fully supported this policy. Halifax had already developed a good relationship with the German government. After his first visit to Nazi Germany he told his friend, Henry (Chips) Channon: “He (Halifax) told me he liked all the Nazi leaders, even Goebbels, and he was much impressed, interested and amused by the visit. He thinks the regime absolutely fantastic.”
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