Failing Ignobly

The big speech last week was, of course, the one given before Congress by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It was a forceful performance. Nancy Pelosi said that she was so dismayed by both the style and the substance of the prime minister’s speech that she was nearly reduced to tears.

Ms. Pelosi had managed to hold it together in the presence of Syrian dictator and killer Bashar al-Assad back when she was speaker of the House and led a delegation on a trip to Damascus where she shook hands with Assad and, as the Wall Street Journal reported, pronounced herself “very pleased with the assurances we received from [Mr. Assad] that he was ready to resume the peace process.”