“the road to Damascus is a road to peace.” Nancy Pelosi, Congressional Record, 2007
“Assad is a man of his word who has been very generous with me. Under Assad, Syria will move; Syria will change as it embraces a legitimate relationship with the United States.” John Kerry, Democratic Senator for Massachusetts, March 16, 2011.
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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.”
Representative Tom Lantos (D., Calif.), who accompanied Pelosi on her trip, doubled down on the significance of the Pelosi-Assad meeting: “This is only the beginning of our constructive dialogue with Syria, and we hope to build on this visit.”
maybe they could go over as a peace delegation and see if they can work things out...