Useful Idiots

Nancy Pelosi meets with Bashar Assad in 2007

Assad’s Useful Idiots -- Noah Glyn, NRO

American policymakers tried to negotiated with the Assad regime for too long.

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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My Comment: Both political parties have been guilty of exploring diplomatic avenues to accommodate some of the most vile leaders of the 21srt century .... but it seems that we have have surpassed ourselves in the past few years .... the case file on US efforts to accommodate Assad is a case in point. The road to hell is usually paced with good intentions .... our road to reach an understanding with the Assad family of Syria is one of those roads.

On a side note .... Soviet communists invented a specific term for this behavior .... useful idiots .... that even though atrocity followed by atrocity was committed .... these "useful idiots" choose to ignore it.