I think Speaker Pelosi's critics are getting carried away here. Take this part of the article:
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..."It's certainly not her finest moment," said Michael O'Hanlon, senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
"There's been no great harm done, but we do have to find some ways to mend the U.S.-Turkish relationship."...
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Somehow I doubt that the harm done by this resolution is nearly as bad as the harm done when then Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz suggested that Turkey's military might want to overthrow Turkey's civilian government if that government refused to cooperate with our invasion of Iraq.
I don't know why Speaker Pelosi feels the need to push this issue now, but it's wrong to try to blame her for the strains in our relations with Turkey.