April 23, 2007, 0:40 a.m. Bush Surge vs. Reid SurgeReckless rhetoric can kill. By Mackubin Thomas Owens When Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, trekked to Damascus not too long ago to meet with the thug dictator of Syria, it occurred to me that she was essentially taking a page from a scene in The Godfather — the one in which Sonny dissents from a decision made by his father, Don Corleone, during a meeting with a representative of another mafia family. The representative — an assassin for the Tattaglias — immediately concludes that if the...