Some architectural info on the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, which Nancy Pelosi visited on her recent diplomatic trip to the region.

She said little from Israel to Saudi, but you wouldn’t know that from the coverage in the States, projecting Benedict Arnold when a US politician not from the White House goes to the Middle East, unless it’s John McCain, callously resting sinking presidential hopes on a tour of a Baghdad market. So the speaker of the house wearing a headscarf in a splendid mosque in Damascus causes more of an outcry among the fringes in the States than a senator (Lindsey Graham) exclaiming "I got five rugs for five bucks!" as he tours a war zone market, under a full military entourage including Apache helicopters, to try and convince  Americans that Baghdad is safe and that McCain’s candidancy is as legitimate as the war.

To be more depressing, this Fox News clip.