Pardon my pigeon Spanish. But it's very weird that between all the invokations of Ronald Reagan and the exhortations of Iran there isn't any mention of the Contras. Does the name Hassenfuss mean anything anymore?

Would all of this have been more or less likely without Nancy Pelosi's "treasonous" meeting in Damascus?

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice began a session of talks with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem on Thursday.

They met in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, where they are attending an international conference on stabilizing Iraq.

The meeting comes as a the U.S. military said Syria is doing more to stop the flow of foreign fighters coming across its border into Iraq.

U.S. military spokesman Major-General William Caldwell said insurgents were still crossing the border into Iraq's vast western desert, where Sunni Islamist Al-Qaida in Iraq has influence, but numbers were slowing.

"There has been some movement by the Syrians ... there has been a reduction in the foreign fighter flow making their way into Iraq, as we have observed here over the last month," Caldwell told a news conference.