Fresh off a trip to Syria to present an “alternative Democratic foreign policy,” Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi might be flying to Tehran to talk to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Not only is Miss Pelosi forgetting the President and the Vice President have to become incapacitated before she speaks behind the presidential seal, she doesn’t seem to realize Ahmadinejad is not the real power in Iran. Then again, since she professed before she didn’t know there is a difference between Sunni and Shia, who could blame her for once again being ignorant?

The Democratic speaker from San Francisco and Lantos, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, were asked at a press conference in San Francisco Tuesday whether on the heels of their recent trip to the Middle East they would be interested in extending their diplomacy in the troubled region with a visit to Iran.

“Speaking just for myself, I would be ready to get on a plane tomorrow morning, because however objectionable, unfair and inaccurate many of (Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s) statements are, it is important that we have a dialogue with him,” Lantos said. “Speaking for myself, I’m ready to go — and knowing the speaker, I think that she might be.”

“I find the president of Iran’s remarks to be so repulsive that they are outside the circle of civilized human behavior,” Pelosi said, referring to Ahmadinejad’s past comments that Israel should be wiped off the face of the map and his questioning of the existence of the Holocaust.

“But a person of Mr. Lantos’ stature and personal experience is saying that — even as a Holocaust survivor and even recognizing the outrageous statements of the president of Iran — it’s important to have dialogue. I think that speaks volumes.”

What on Earth does being a Holocaust survivor mean to wanting to open dialogue with Iran, other than, perhaps, Ahmadinejad driving a stake through Rep. Lantos’ heart for good measure when Pelosi and crew were to land? It’s the exact same victimhood and expertise through being a victim that Democrats run on several issues, but just because one was a victim of a certain crime it doesn’t mean they are experts in it. I’ve been the victim of vandalism a few times, but I’m not an expert on vandalism.

I simply don’t get it. Why does Rep. Pelosi feel she is in the role of making U.S. foreign policy? Seriously, did one of her grandchildren hit her with a gavel when she was made Speaker? Was that what all of her blinking was about during the State of the Union?