Pelosi’s Foreign Policy

In a slap in the face of President Bush's "I'm too good to talk to you" foreign policy stance, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is heading to Syria next week to visit with President Basher al-Assad. The White House doesn't want her to go, and is "discouraging the visit," but Pelosi will go anyway.

While I'm not a big fan of Syria, specifically because of their support for Hamas, Hezbollah and how they like to screw with the Lebanese government, diplomacy does not hurt. President Bush's "no diplomacy foreign policy" has not gotten us anywhere except on the rest of the world's shit list, so what can it hurt if Pelosi tries this?

It is, by the way, encouraged by the Iraq Study Group that we do talk to some of the powers in the region, including Syria and Iran, to put together a solution in Iraq, and if we've learned anything from Iraq, it's that bombing everyone who disagrees with us back to the stone age doesn't bring about change, despite the fact that it may seem like the easy solution. Blowing things up doesn't necessarily make people respect us; it just makes then want to blow our stuff up too.

I have to admit though, I'm kind of surprised at the way Nancy Pelosi has been acting as Speaker of the House. I rather suspected she would be a rollover type, who would eventually cave in to the President if he applied enough press to her. Actually, she's been one tough woman. It makes me wonder how at the end she will rank among the Speakers.

Oh, and by the way, just to prove the Democrats aren't the party of the terrorists, Pelosi is ALSO heading over to Israel to address the Knesset. Diplomacy is a good thing.