{"id":3407,"date":"2007-04-03T09:23:19","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T16:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/03\/whats-the-big-deal-about-pelosi-visiting-syria\/"},"modified":"2007-04-03T09:23:19","modified_gmt":"2007-04-03T16:23:19","slug":"whats-the-big-deal-about-pelosi-visiting-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/03\/whats-the-big-deal-about-pelosi-visiting-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the Big Deal About Pelosi Visiting Syria?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House and members of The War Party are going nuts over Pelosi&#8217;s trip to Syria.   But why such a strong reaction?<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/372\/story\/24186.html\">three Republican House members, Frank Wolf (VA), Joe Pitts (PA), and Robert Aderholt (AL) met with Syrian President Bashar Assad.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued by the U.S. Embassy in Damascus, the congressmen said &#8220;We came because we believe there is an opportunity for dialogue. We are following in the lead of Ronald Reagan, who reached out to the Soviets during the Cold War.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House and members of The War Party are going nuts over Pelosi&#8217;s trip to Syria. But why such a strong reaction? On Sunday, three Republican House members, Frank Wolf (VA), Joe Pitts (PA), and Robert Aderholt (AL) met with Syrian President Bashar Assad. In a statement issued by the U.S. Embassy in Damascus, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3407"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}