Every so often a story comes down the wire that I can’t really get an opinion on, and I get worried because I’m afraid I may side with the White House on it. So I ask you as my liberal moonbat brethren to help me figure out why exactly Nancy Pelosi is traveling to Syria.

Pelosi’s visit to Syria would come as the United States has severed high-level contacts with Assad’s government. The administration recalled the U.S. ambassador to Damascus after the February 2005 assassination of Rafik Hariri in Lebanon. There has been very little high- or mid-level U.S. contact with Syria since then.

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White House spokesperson Dana Perino strongly criticized Pelosi’s planned visit, saying, “We think it is a really bad idea.”

Someone in bloggerland, explain this one to me. I understand that the Iraq Study Group said we should extend the olive branch to Iran and Syria, but what exactly is this trying to accomplish?