Pelosi As Nancy Of Taiwan

Will Nancy Pelosi be the face that launches a thousand missiles, destined to live on in history – if the world endures – as Nancy of Taiwan?

We should soon know.

It was Helen of Troy whose mythical beauty caused her to be christened after the fact as the woman with the face that launched a thousand ships.

Those thousand vessels carried Greek warriors to Troy, where a 10-year struggle ensued to retrieve Helen from her Trojan kidnappers and return Helen to her cuckolded husband Menelaus, who’d been keeping the home fires burning in Sparta.

Pelosi, who previously has prompted comparisons to Marie Antoinette for the tone-deafness both have shown when it comes to anyone below elite class, now has the chance to become a latter day Helen.

There are differences, of course. It is doubtful Helen went through Botox by the 55-gallon drum, or required a COVID-closed beauty shop to be opened clandestinely to touch up her hair.

It can be said with absolute certainly that Helen didn’t indulge herself with $14-a-pint ice cream, stored in a $25,000 freezer

But both could be the cause of wars.

Joe Biden, seeming to act at the behest of his Chinese friends, has tried to keep Pelosi from visiting Taiwan on her far east swing, lest she offend the Chi-Coms.

God knows, we can’t offend our Chinese masters. Just ask any Biden family member, or LeBron James for that matter.

Having apparently driven her husband to drink judging by arrest records, Pelosi has seemed to look to do the same to the Bidens and James by possibly ignoring the protestations to bow to Chinese wishes.

The Chinese have told Biden that playing with fire, as in Pelosi stopping off in Taiwan, could lead to being burned.

The U.S. has dispatched a carrier group – not a thousand ships, but a group packing much more punch than the thousand Greek boats.

The official Pelosi itinerary, released Sunday, noted stops in Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan. People who parse such things saw no mention of a refueling stop in Taiwan, but also did not see such a stop ruled out explicitly.

And so we wait.

There was a curious bi-partisan agreement that Pelosi should visit Taiwan, composed of members of both major political parties who do not seem to be – yet – on the Chi-Com payroll.

I shall lay my head down tonight fully expecting to awaken Monday morning to something better than a nuclear wasteland, with Pelosi having blinked on her Taiwan plans, thereby allowing the world to remain safe for Chinese aggression.

If I’m wrong and Pelosi ignites World War III, there is yet another historic comparison to be made. She will be a latter-day Joan of Arc, roasting herself and the world on a nuclear bonfire.