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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s planned visit to Syria later this week will undermine American foreign policy, a conservative analyst said Monday, citing the Baathist regime’s links to regional terrorism.
Shrugging off White House disapproval, the California Democrat plans to hold talks with President Bashar Assad in Damascus, as part of a Mideast visit that has also taken in Israel and Lebanon.
"Pelosi’s visit is likely to undermine the Bush administration’s foreign policy and help the Syrians go back to business as usual - much to the dismay of our Lebanese, Iraqi, and Israeli friends, all of whom want the United States to take a tougher stand against Syria," Jim Phillips, a research fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Heritage Foundation, told Cybercast News Service…
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