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April 9, 2007
scarves
Yesterday a pair of KIW staffers joined in an Easter dinner with a group of friends. 
During dinner, an otherwise likeable and intelligent couple wanted to share some information about U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi’s recent trip to the middle east.
According to this duo, Speaker Pelosi’s wearing of a scarf during her meeting with the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, was a faux paux of immense proportion. Apparently the Speaker “wasn’t aware the President al-Assad’s daughter does not wear headscarves,” and that, therefore, the wearing of a scarf in his presence was an insult that “might start a war.”
We can only imagine where these friends of KIW get this kind of insight.
As chance would have it, we were reassured by an article in the next day’s Seattle Times, praising Ms. Pelosi’s sense of fashion - and diplomacy.
Seattle Times; 9 April 2007; p C4; 'Sometimes a pretty scarf is more than a pretty scarf'
Posted by williamfrick at April 9, 2007 12:18 PM