Michael Barone has a great article on Nancy Pelosi's "trip" to Syria. What I like about his article is that it delves into the heart of ALL DEM thinking on America.

At the heart of that thinking is this proposition: We’re the problem. America, or rather George W. Bush, is the problem. We’re not doing enough to get the Israelis and Syrians together; we’re not doing enough to address the grievances of the Palestinian people (than whom “nobody is suffering more,” according to Barack Obama); we’re not doing enough to mollify the dictators who are working against us.

Akin to this is the feeling shared by most Democrats and, it seems, by most American voters, that if we can just get our troops out of Iraq all will be well in the world.

Maybe it's the DEM inability to speak in absolutes that makes them naive?

There are evil leaders out there — the mullahs of Iran, Assad and his thugs, Kim Jong Il, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and his pal Fidel Castro — who hate the United States and want to do us as much damage as they can.

They don’t hate us just because the Republican Congress didn’t raise the minimum wage or because George W. Bush has a stubborn streak and speaks with a West Texas accent. They hate us because of our freedoms and because we have worked to export those freedoms around the world.

Friendship, hope, and a determination to be on the road to peace are not enough to protect us in this world. A speedy exit from Iraq might make many Americans less unsettled while watching cable news — for a while. But it wouldn’t make us safer. It will just leave us more likely to face the kind of surprise we had on Sept. 11, 2001.

The other piece of Barone's article is this notion that returning Clinton to the White House will somehow restore peace. He writes:

I recall reading a few weeks ago an article on Democratic fund raising that quoted a woman as saying that “we were very safe under the Clinton administration.” No, we weren’t “very safe” — we just thought we were. Bill Clinton knew we weren’t “very safe,” and he took some steps — unfortunately, not enough — to make us safer.

Bill Clinton postponed (and not even successfully - USS COLE) what is inevitable and what NO amount of wine and cheese at Davos is going to solve.

What Nancy wants (what all DEMS) want is to be left alone to build cities like San Francisco. And DEMS do this by hiding behind bankrupt organizations like the UN (or mingling in Davos) because in the mind of a DEM as long as you're talking progress is being made. I guess as long as you FEEL like progress is being made ethnic cleansing in Darfur is just background noise.

But the world Nancy wants is just an illusion. Just like Hitler wasn't content with Czechoslovakia, Iran and Syria won't be content until Israel is wiped from the face of the map. What troubles me these days is how indifferent the left is to Israel. I believe they view Israel as an obstacle (just like religion) to the little Utopia that Nancy is the spokesman (er, spokesperson) for.

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