Why Pelosi went to Syria
The question I'd like to ask is this: Why did she come back?
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"Pelosi did not honor diversity by wearing that hideous scarf on her head. She honored the oppression of women. She honored the exploitation of children as fodder for jihad. She honored tyranny. She honored hate and racism and religious intolerance and bigotry."
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Joseph Farah
wnd.com
Posted: April 9, 20071:00 a.m. Eastern
The images of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with a shmatte on her head simulating a burka were disturbing.
Not only did Pelosi choose unwisely to travel to the terrorist-sponsoring police state of Syria, a nation currently undermining the mission of our troops in Iraq right now, but she did so costumed in the subservient garb of a dhimmi chick, rather than the designer power suits she fancies when in Washington.
While Pelosi has been duly smacked for attempting to establish her own foreign policy in the midst of a war, I'd like to explain the why of this ill-begotten mission.
It goes without saying, Pelosi leads a party and an ideology that believes America is usually wrong, especially when it uses force to protect its vital national interests and the security of its people.
It's not wrong, of course, when it uses military force for completely capricious reasons that have nothing to do with national security – missions like Kosovo. In fact, if those actions actually undermine the long-range goals of the U.S. by supporting its enemies, all the better.
That's the strange intellectual and moral prism through which Pelosi tends to view the world.
So, naturally a trip to an arch-enemy of America, an obstacle to freedom in the Middle East and the world's headquarters for Islamo-fascist terrorists, would be a natural.
In Pelosi's world, the enemies of America are to be appeased at all costs. Military force is to be reserved for use against those battling the same evil forces who seek to destroy Western Civilization.
As I say, that should all be obvious to even the most casual observer of the political scene.
Fundamentally, Nancy Pelosi and her ilk really believe most of what is wrong with the world has to do with America being too powerful. It needs to be knocked down a rung or three as a world power. This is best accomplished by hamstringing the military, working exclusively through broad coalitions in which the U.S. can be only as strong as the weakest link and, of course, by talking, talking, talking and more talking.
Pelosi's party doesn't see evil when it looks into the eyes of al-Qaida. To prove the point quickly, I remind you of the words of Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean Dec. 28, 2003, about Osama bin Laden: "I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. … I still have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely to be found guilty, we should do our best not to … prejudge jury trials."
Dean, however, was not nearly so charitable and reserved on May 12, 2005, when the subject turned to the guilt of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who had been indicted. Dean suggested DeLay "ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence."
To members of Pelosi's party, the real threat to Americans comes from their political opponents in the Republican Party, not people who commit mass murder on our citizens.
And that gets us to the "why" of her trip.
It's really about domestic politics, not foreign affairs.
Last month I wrote about how Pelosi was romancing the Muslim constituency here at home. This trip to Syria serves two purposes in Pelosi's eyes. It embarrasses President Bush and focuses attention on our problems in Iraq, and it wins the hearts and minds of a growing Muslim population in America – one leaning increasingly Democratic because of its appeasing nature.
Pelosi rationalizes her behavior – even the wearing of the burka-like shmatte – is her religious-like zeal for honoring "diversity." One problem remains, however. The Islamic world does not believe in diversity. It believes in conformity.
Posted: April 9, 20071:00 a.m. Eastern
The images of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with a shmatte on her head simulating a burka were disturbing.
Not only did Pelosi choose unwisely to travel to the terrorist-sponsoring police state of Syria, a nation currently undermining the mission of our troops in Iraq right now, but she did so costumed in the subservient garb of a dhimmi chick, rather than the designer power suits she fancies when in Washington.
While Pelosi has been duly smacked for attempting to establish her own foreign policy in the midst of a war, I'd like to explain the why of this ill-begotten mission.
It goes without saying, Pelosi leads a party and an ideology that believes America is usually wrong, especially when it uses force to protect its vital national interests and the security of its people.
It's not wrong, of course, when it uses military force for completely capricious reasons that have nothing to do with national security – missions like Kosovo. In fact, if those actions actually undermine the long-range goals of the U.S. by supporting its enemies, all the better.
That's the strange intellectual and moral prism through which Pelosi tends to view the world.
So, naturally a trip to an arch-enemy of America, an obstacle to freedom in the Middle East and the world's headquarters for Islamo-fascist terrorists, would be a natural.
In Pelosi's world, the enemies of America are to be appeased at all costs. Military force is to be reserved for use against those battling the same evil forces who seek to destroy Western Civilization.
As I say, that should all be obvious to even the most casual observer of the political scene.
Fundamentally, Nancy Pelosi and her ilk really believe most of what is wrong with the world has to do with America being too powerful. It needs to be knocked down a rung or three as a world power. This is best accomplished by hamstringing the military, working exclusively through broad coalitions in which the U.S. can be only as strong as the weakest link and, of course, by talking, talking, talking and more talking.
Pelosi's party doesn't see evil when it looks into the eyes of al-Qaida. To prove the point quickly, I remind you of the words of Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean Dec. 28, 2003, about Osama bin Laden: "I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. … I still have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely to be found guilty, we should do our best not to … prejudge jury trials."
Dean, however, was not nearly so charitable and reserved on May 12, 2005, when the subject turned to the guilt of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who had been indicted. Dean suggested DeLay "ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence."
To members of Pelosi's party, the real threat to Americans comes from their political opponents in the Republican Party, not people who commit mass murder on our citizens.
And that gets us to the "why" of her trip.
It's really about domestic politics, not foreign affairs.
Last month I wrote about how Pelosi was romancing the Muslim constituency here at home. This trip to Syria serves two purposes in Pelosi's eyes. It embarrasses President Bush and focuses attention on our problems in Iraq, and it wins the hearts and minds of a growing Muslim population in America – one leaning increasingly Democratic because of its appeasing nature.
Pelosi rationalizes her behavior – even the wearing of the burka-like shmatte – is her religious-like zeal for honoring "diversity." One problem remains, however. The Islamic world does not believe in diversity. It believes in conformity.
Pelosi did not honor diversity by wearing that hideous scarf on her head. She honored the oppression of women. She honored the exploitation of children as fodder for jihad. She honored tyranny. She honored hate and racism and religious intolerance and bigotry.
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