Qatari columnist Mazen Hammad wrote in the Qatari daily Al-Watan: “It is as if lightning had struck the White House. This is how House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Damascus could be described. This wise woman, who is considered the third most senior American [official], is not only bringing her country back to sanity, but is also contributing to improving the image of the U.S. in the Arab and Muslim world.
“The talk in the White House of ‘mixed signals’ sent to Syria by the visit is not true. The visit sends one [single] message - a message of the American people’s challenge to the foreign policy adopted by the American administration…
“The important message that Nancy Pelosi has sent, not only to the Middle East but to the entire world, is that the closed-door policy always fails, and that the use of military force and economic violence in order to assure political ends that rely on [American] hegemony is equivalent to robbery… Force that does not open political horizons cannot succeed in forcing solutions.
It is Nancy that needs to carry a sign that says:
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED