Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Reach Out and Beat Someone

Outreach by the Obama administration to Syria just hasn't had the desired effect:

Syrian President Bashar Assad said Monday that the United States has lost its influence in the Middle East due to its failure to contribute to regional peace, in an interview with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.

Huh. Some people just seem immune to the soothing balms of hope and change, I guess.

In their urgency to infuse nuance into our foreign policy, our new, reset State Department forgot the wise saying, when confronting a mad dog, that diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.