The Absurd Report

Aiding The Enemy: Sen. John Kerry has given himself a new job: Syrian ambassador to the United States. His kind of self-serving freelance diplomacy should be condemned for what it is: disloyalty to America.

The loser of the 2004 presidential election has embarked on his first major campaign stunt of the 2008 White House campaign: traveling to the Middle East and consorting with a terrorist state in pursuit of some kind of grand settlement on Iraq.

Kerry and fellow Democratic senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut sat down for two hours last week with Syrian President Bashar Assad. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., had already met with Assad the week before, and Sen. Arlen Specter, the liberal Pennsylvania Republican and critic of the Bush administration’s aggressive anti-terrorist policies, is set to visit Syria this week.

These do-your-own-thing negotiations, opposed and discouraged by the White House, shouldn’t be confused with the recent efforts of another liberal Democrat, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, to talk with communist North Korea on behalf of the U.S.

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