In "Terror-Friendly GOP Leader?" in the [1] New York Post, Debbie Schlussel shows that it is not only the [2] Democrats who are anxious to kowtow. Both parties seem utterly clueless about what we are up against, and how to deal with it. If there was ever a time for a new alternative, it is now.

November 16, 2006 -- WILL appeasing terrorists be the new House Republican strategy?

Several respected Republicans must think so, since they've endorsed Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) to become the new Republican Policy Committee Chairman. The other candidate is Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.), and the vote is tomorrow morning.

Issa's history includes open support for Syria's tyrannical regime and for Hezbollah and Palestinian terrorists.

He vehemently opposed the Syrian Accountability Act, which sanctions Syria until it stops sponsoring Hezbollah and other terrorists, claiming Syria is "cooperative."

During one of his many trips to Syria, the opposition Reform Party said that Issa "helps Syria with [its] propaganda campaign," and warned, "The Ba'ath Party of Syria is duping Rep. Issa and using him as a propaganda tool."

On a post-9/11 visit with Syrian leader Bashir al-Assad, Issa was quoted by the state-run Syrian News Agency as saying: "Hezbollah or any other party has the right to resist occupation."

The Teheran Times quoted other Issa statements to Assad: "Hezbollah acts legitimately and has never been involved in terrorist activities. . . Hezbollah and any other Lebanese group has the right to resist the occupation of its territory. . . Hezbollah's humanitarian and governmental actions were legal."

In a Beirut Daily Star interview, Issa said, "It is Lebanon which will determine whether the party's [Hezbollah's] activities constitute terrorism or resistance . . . a legitimate right recognized [by the U.N.] . . . I have a great deal of sympathy for the work that Hezbollah tries to do."

Issa denies all these accounts, but they fit in with his other statements and actions.

Read it all. And Debbi Schlussel has more on Issa [3] here.