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Should Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi have gone to Taiwan?
Hell, yes, and here’s who else from America who should book a trip
From The Washington Post’s August 3 editorial page:
“However much the 82-year-old Ms. Pelosi might want a capstone event for her time as speaker — before a likely GOP victory in November ends it — going to Taiwan now, as President Xi Jinping of China is orchestrating his third term, was unwise.”
I don’t ordinarily disagree with the WaPo’s editorials. Like Republicans who turn to Fox News’ Tucker Carlson or Sean Hannity to get their daily marching orders, I depend on the left-center Post to tell me who to vote for and what issues to support — or to at least ratify what I’m already thinking. Not only do I read the Post with my morning coffee, I drank java the Post recommended.
But I part company with its editorial board on Speaker Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. Let Xi be pissed. We need to show support for this most Western of Eastern democracies every which way we can.
President Biden, instead of doing “damage control,” should’ve hopped on Air Force One and been in Taiwan to fist bump Pelosi as she departed.
Secretary of State Anthony “Winkin’” Blinken should have been there on Joe’s heels if not his plane.
