Nancy's road to Damascus

John Podhoretz:

TWO THOUSAND years ago on the road to Damascus, Saul of Tarsus was struck blind, fell off his donkey, heard the voice of the Lord and became St. Paul.

This week on the road to Damascus, riding on the Democratic donkey, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was struck blind by a prideful ambition - the ambition to conduct a foreign policy for the United States toward the terrorist nation of Syria separate from the one conducted by the president.

On the road to Damascus, St. Paul became one of the revolutionary figures of world civilization.

Nancy Pelosi - not so much.

Yesterday, following a meeting with Syria's tyrant in Damascus, Pelosi proudly informed the world that "I conveyed the message from [Israeli] Prime Minister [Ehud] Olmert that Israel is ready to restart negotiations as well as to talk peace."

Wow! Really?

Um, no.

Almost instantly, Olmert's office issued a clarification saying that Pelosi had mischaracterized Israel's position: The Jewish state will not negotiate with Syria until it ceases its sponsorship of terrorist organizations, stops destabilizing Lebanon and stops making common cause with Iran.

Whoops.

Pelosi said she had come to Syria "determined that the road to Damascus would be the path to peace." How nice. Too bad Syria is about as interested in peace with Israel as Pelosi is interested in peace with George W. Bush.

...

... did she think it would help her rather steep learning curve as the speaker of the House to travel outside the United States, insert herself into a terrifically delicate diplomatic situation, and make a complete and total ass of herself?
Does she have enough self awareness to even realize her blunder? Probably not at this point. She is probably still in the glow of her failed "accomplishment."

She proved to the Democrat kook base that she can bravely defy the Bush administration and they will also probably ignore her missteps. Democrats are big on symbolism. For them the symbolism will out weight the failure of substance. She did get her photo op.

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