San Fran Nan really stuck her foot in it
Posted by: McQ
From the Lebanon Daily Star. Seems Nancy Peolisi's popularity just keeps on growing (/sarcasm):
We can thank the US speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, for having informed Syrian President Bashar Assad, from Beirut, that "the road to solving Lebanon's problems passes through Damascus." Now, of course, all we need to do is remind Pelosi that the spirit and letter of successive United Nations Security Council resolutions, as well as Saudi and Egyptian efforts in recent weeks, have been destined to ensure precisely the opposite: that Syria end its meddling in Lebanese affairs.
This just gets better and better doesn't it? Cue the apologists: "but she was just talking". Oh, oh, and "but Gingrich went to China".
She spends a few days in the area, sets diplomacy back 20 years and there are those on the left who defend her overreaching even while they condemn the administration for trying to expand executive power. Make sense to you? Wait it isn't about sense, its about politics. You only defend the indefensible when it is your side doing it ... right?
Anyway, read the rest of the article cited to understand the gist of what Pelosi stuck her size 9s in and that of which she managed to make a mess. A very complex situation with all sorts of permutations as well as active diplomatic efforts, all of which she apparently managed to misunderstand.
Wonderful.
As an aside, she did manage to take Gonzales off the front page. Heh ...
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