Friday, April 06, 2007
Nancy Pelosi subverts the United Nations
Lebanon's English-language Daily Star examines Nancy Pelosi's visit to Damascus from a perspective I had not considered, that she subverted the United Nations:
We can thank the US speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, for having informed Syrian President Bashar Assad, from Beirut, that "the road to solving Lebanon's problems passes through Damascus." Now, of course, all we need to do is remind Pelosi that the spirit and letter of successive United Nations Security Council resolutions, as well as Saudi and Egyptian efforts in recent weeks, have been destined to ensure precisely the opposite: that Syria end its meddling in Lebanese affairs.
Now, I am no fan of the United Nations and have never (that I can recall or even imagine) complained that an American politician has damaged its credibility. I certainly won't do so here. Indeed, if I thought Nancy Pelosi intended to undermine the United Nations I might think better of her. Alas, I'm sure that she did it by accident. Let us fantasize, though, that some honest reporter will ask her about this the next time the Democrats rant that George W. Bush has insufficiently respected that wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Read the whole article, which in addition to hammering Nancy Pelosi is extremely enlightening on the subject of Hezbollah's political dilemma.
11 Comments:
By 
, at
Fri Apr 06, 06:24:00 PM:
As if anyone needed additional proof Speaker Pelosi is so dense light cannot escape her.
By 
D.E. Cloutier, at
Fri Apr 06, 07:01:00 PM:
A question at the Opinion Journal of the Wall Street Journal today: "Did Nancy Pelosi commit a felony when she went to Syria?"
Link:
http://opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110009908
By Purple Avenger, at
Fri Apr 06, 07:37:00 PM:
The solution to Lebanon's problems is the covert Syrian spies and Intel apparatus getting on the road BACK TO Damascus.
The Syrians desperately want back INTO Lebanon in an overt manner. Pelosi is a nit-wit.
By RevJim, at
Sat Apr 07, 02:55:00 PM:
Didn't Speaker Pelosi take an oath to "uphold and protect the Constitution?" or does that oath apply only to the Executive Branch and the military. If the SOH overstepped the constitutional boundries of separation of powers, she should be censured, at least.
By , at
Sat Apr 07, 03:41:00 PM:
I,ll bet those dirty warfrats in SAN FRANCISCO will make her home a shrine and decorate it with plenty of vietkong and comminist flags and red stars
By TigerHawk, at
Sat Apr 07, 04:09:00 PM:
SJ,
I'm with you. Put differently, I think that Pelosi made a political and a diplomatic error in going on her trip, but this business of tossing around allegations of criminal conduct for essentially political acts really needs to stop. Pelosi beclowned herself, which is worse than violating a law that has never been enforced.
By , at
Sun Apr 08, 12:23:00 AM:
Why should we have anything more to do with this wretched UN anymore its time to give them Unreliable Ninompoops their walking papers and close down and raze that ugly eyesore of a bunch of buildings
By Ron Coleman, at
Sun Apr 08, 01:03:00 AM:
It does sound preposterous to suggest that what she did was illegal. But it's not much better to say that you can deduce that from the fact that a certain statute has never been enforced. That has nothing at all to do with whether someone has violated it.
Is it constitutional? Maybe, maybe not. But is selective prosecution a defense? Virtually never. Ask anyone who's ever gotten a speeding ticket.
By TigerHawk, at
Sun Apr 08, 08:42:00 AM:
Ronald Coleman -
I didn't mean to suggest that selective prosecution amount to an excuse or a defense. However, it is evidence that the accusation is primarily a political one, rather than substantive. American law has become so complex that it is virtually impossible for people in positions of authority to travel through it without breaking the law, and the gulf between law and morality is ever-widening. The question was whether anybody seriously thinks that Pelosi's actions ought to be criminal (as opposed to criminally stupid), or whether this accusation is just political "gotcha." I think the latter.
By Dawnfire82, at
Sun Apr 08, 02:34:00 PM:
"Between this and the military plane non-scandal, it really looks like there's an unseemly desperation to take Pelosi down."
Considering the level of similar insane attempts to attack Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gingrich, Limbaugh, and other assorted rightist personalities, that doesn't bother me as much as it should.
I hate domestic politics.
By , at
Wed Apr 18, 01:14:00 AM:
it is evidence that the accusation is primarily a political one
Ah, has the democratic party done anything that is not primarily political in the last 5 years?
