A Fool’s Errand

Speaker Pelosi’s trip to Syria this week isn’t the only fool’s errand during the congressional spring break. There are some republicans meddling in middle east affairs too. It is too bad that members of the US House of Representatives seem to be more interested in American defeat.

From the New York Sun:

Speaker Pelosi’s visit to Syria, due to take place today, raises the question of whether the Democrats are prepared to seek a separate peace. When America was serious about war such a trip would have been seen as a scandal. At Casablanca, say, Roosevelt and Churchill decided, as one U.S. government Web site recounts, “that no peace would be concluded except on the basis of ‘unconditional surrender.’” Roosevelt wanted “to assure the people of all the fighting nations that no separate peace negotiations would be carried on with representatives of Fascism and Nazism and there would be no compromise of the war’s idealistic objectives.”No doubt Ms. Pelosi and her camarilla — including, of all people, Congressman Thomas Lantos — will deny that they had anything like a separate peace, or even peace negotiations, in mind when they set out for Damascus. They’ll make much of the fact that prior to departing for the enemy capital they visited Jerusalem, where the speaker told a dinner party in her honor at the Knesset that American support for Israel was unwavering and bipartisan.

Prime Minister Olmert asked her to tell President al-Assad that Israel would be willing to reenter negotiations only after Syria ceased support for terrorism in Lebanon and the Palestinian Arab areas. Ms. Pelosi’s own trek to Damascus was preceded by a group of Republican House members, including Frank Wolf of Virginia, Joseph Pitts of Pennsylvania, and Robert Aderholt of Alabama, proving that the Democrats hold no monopoly on undertaking fool’s errands. The three said they discussed with Syrian officials the flow of terrorists eastward from Syria into Iraq; the flow of weapons westward from Syria into Lebanon; and support for Hamas.