Political tag-of-war is getting tougher in USA. Chance of political convergence is deteriorating quickly following Ms. Pelosi’s, speaker of US Congress, visit in Syria.
Bush administration always assumed Syria as a terrorism sponsoring country. Even Syria’s government does not deny the claim. Though they disagree the charge of military support to terrorists, but confirm their financial assistance to Hamas and Hizbullah groups. US foreign policy maintain tough stance against Syria. And Bush administration often threats to flex their muscle if Syria denies changing its pro-terrorism policy.
On the other side Democrats are demanding for withdrawal of American troops for overseas warfronts. They promote bilateral and multilateral discussion as solution for West Asian terrorism. Ms. Pelosi visited Syria on 3rd April last week as a franchise to this pro-discussion thought. And talked with Syrian supreme Assad. According to Pelosi, she stressed on the issue of conditional bilateral talk between Israeli and Syria. And the condition is - discontinuation of any sort of assistance to terrorists.
But Bush administration tagged this visit, totally unofficial and ultra vires. Responsibility of US foreign policy rests with Office of President. And that’s very much constitutional. Under such situation Ms. Pelosi’s en-route visit to Syria is raising the heat.
Despite, former president Jimmy Carter’s support to Pelosi’s visit, Republicans are in no mood to give walkover to Democrats. Dick Cheney has already pounded heavily against Pelosi following Bush’s course. The important fact to watch is that, how much this tussle will affect coming Congressional meet. If both of the parties remain firm on their stance, some sort of stagnancy may emerge in the Congress and that can potentially hamper the Agenda implementation for both the parties.
Via: Reuters
