This Post Is Not About MoCo, But I Like This Picture

Okay, so I find this picture amusing, sad and interesting on a couple of levels. First, not only is Roman Catholic San Fran Nan doing her best to appease her Islamic hosts in Syria (where the picture was taken), but then she goes and performs the Sign of the Cross at the tomb of John the Baptist (in a mosque no less!). Huh?

Second, her whole trip to the Middle East and meeting with terrorist-supporting tyrants really rubs me the wrong way. In America, there's a policy and procedure for contacts with foreign heads of state. The precedent was established a couple hundred years ago - it's called the Logan Act. I wonder why Nan thinks she's above it?

Sometimes wrong is wrong. In this case, Nan is wrong. Period, full stop.

UPDATE:

Seems even the venerable Washington Post takes offense to the Speaker's misguided freelance diplomacy. In their editorial, they remind Nan that "Mr. Assad is a corrupt thug" and that "the really striking development here is the attempt by a Democratic congressional leader to substitute her own foreign policy for that of a sitting Republican president."

Honestly, it beggars believe that the Speaker of the House thought she could take U.S. foreign policy on as her own cause. Isn't that why we have the Department of State?

I leave you with this sobering image: