Nancy Pelosi meets with Bashar Assad in 2007.
How to depose Syrian dictator Bashar Assad in a clean fashion has become a pressing question for the international community. How strange that, not so long ago, the question for them was how to convince Assad to join forces with the West. Along the way, many American policymakers worked strenuously to bring him into the fold, as they heaped praise befitting a statesman on the brutal tyrant.
In a recent column, the Wall Street Journal’s Bret Stephens recounted
some of the paeans to Assad: In a March 2011 interview, Hillary Clinton
implied that Assad was a “reformer.” In 2007, Nancy Pelosi, over strong
objections from the State Department, visited Syria, and said, “The
road to Damascus is a road to peace.” Senator John Kerry predicted that
“Syria will change as it embraces a legitimate relationship with the
United States.”
The record of American policymakers’ failures to talk the Assad regime out of its iniquity is long indeed.
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