Meet the Enemy

Nancy Pelosi was happy to go to Syria -

“We came in friendship, hope, and determined that the road to Damascus is a road to peace,” Ms. Pelosi told reporters after her meetings.

It sounds like she might even be willing to go to Iran -

The Democratic speaker from San Francisco and Lantos, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, were asked at a news conference in San Francisco on Tuesday whether on the heels of their recent trip to the Middle East they would be interested in extending their diplomacy in the troubled region with a visit to Iran.

"Speaking just for myself, I would be ready to get on a plane tomorrow morning, because however objectionable, unfair and inaccurate many of (Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's) statements are, it is important that we have a dialogue with him,'' Lantos said. "Speaking for myself, I'm ready to go -- and knowing the speaker, I think that she might be.''

Pelosi did not dispute that statement...

But we know that there are some people she just can't bring herself to meet -

''What the president invited us to do was come to his office so that we could accept without any discussion the bill that he wants,'' Pelosi said at a news conference in San Francisco. ''That's not worthy of the concerns of the American people, and I join with Senator Reid in rejecting an invitation of that kind.''

So, she's prepared to carry on friendly negotiations, on her own initiative, and not at the request of the government, with two of the leading state sponsors of terrorism in the world, but can't bring herself to meet with the head of her own government. Am I alone in wondering in just what the nature of her negotiations are?