Dilettantes for Dictators II

Postcript from the Middle East on Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's disastrous trip to the Middle East. Powerline quotes a reformist newspaper in Bahrain, among others:

"The only result that Pelosi achieved in visiting Damascus, and in sitting down with the Syrian president and shaking his hand, was to deliver a blow to the liberal opposition in Syria and frustrate reformists' hopes for change. By breaking through the ring of isolation [surrounding] Bashar Assad's regime, Syria advanced [several] steps towards repression and despotism, and the march of reform and democracy fell behind.

And from the Republican Jewish Coalition, which has gone on the air: