What is frightening about Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Syria to engage in pretend diplomacy was not the gall of it, not the silly posturing or the ineptitude of it, not the way it embarrassed the Israeli government as well as our own and and not even the way it brought a smile to America’s enemies. No, the truly scary thing is how little the US media condemned this partisan stunt.
We have only one governmental head at a time and the Speaker of the House isn’t it. A confused official American message oversees damages all of us, not just the individual who happens to be president at the time. The Washington Post, on this kind of issue anyhow, is making plain, but regrettably uncommon, sense. Click here to read the editorial.