[egad]

It is irrelevant; the 3 Republicans are as guilty as Pelosi and the other Democrats who went.  All of them were members of the House of Representatives if my memory serves correct.  Meaning that none of them have any role in determining American foreign policy as the powers in that regard are strictly limited to the executive and the Senate.  So they ignored American policy to conduct their own brand of foreign policy when they have no role in American foreign policy, unless you count obstructing the application of American foreign policy by withholding funding in the next budget.  Of course none of them will be prosecuted on the matter as private American citizens such as Jimmy Carter among others have been trying to conduct American foreign policy without any authority to do so for at least a decade without prosecution.  Plus it's more politically convenient to complain about the trip than it is to bring charges against the Speaker of the House for taking it.  It just means that any agreement that they had reached would be pointless unless the President would be willing to propose it to the Senate for approval.

  Personally I find it humorous watching Middle Eastern diplomats play our politicians and media like a grand concerto.  It is obvious that they have studied us enough to know just what elements of American and European society want to hear from them and they deliver their lines brilliantly.  Knowing full well that those elements will ignore there actions and focus solely on their words..

[cpbell0033944]

Sorry egad, you're missing my point.  The Republicans were on a purely fact-finding trip, which is not proscribed by the Logan Act, whereas Pelosi was trying to influence foreign policy without Executive backing.  Heaven knows, despite my joke about Lingster converting me to the Republican side, any thought I give to the politics of the US (a foreign country to me, don't forget) tends to see me side with the Democrats, but, in this case Pelosi was in the wrong.

[egad]

I may have missed the point, the Republicans in question appeared to go to Syria for the same reasons as Pelosi in the articles that I read on the matter.  I agree that Pelosi was in the wrong, but so were the others who went, at least in my eyes. 

[cpbell0033944]

I may have missed the point, the Republicans in question appeared to go to Syria for the same reasons as Pelosi in the articles that I read on the matter.  I agree that Pelosi was in the wrong, but so were the others who went, at least in my eyes. 

Fair enough.  I think that the US currently has its panties in far too much of a twist about Syria anyway.

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