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By Bull Nav
President Bush today to the Israel's Knesset:
"Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along."We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is - the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."
Outstanding.
Somebody, however, is a little upset with this...
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Of course Barry halfWhite is upset-- the truth does hurt.
Bush is basically right, unless, of course, what we're negotiating is the terms of the terrorist group's surrender. But McCain seems to have switched his position on his one. Apparently in 2006 an interviewer asked him, "Do you think that American diplomats should be operating the way they have in the past, working with the Palestinian government if Hamas is now in charge?"
And McCain said, "They're the government; sooner or later we are going to have to deal with them, one way or another...."
I say "seems to have changed his position" because McCain's language, unlike Bush's, was so ambiguous. McCain could have answered "Yes, we can work with Hamas" or "No, we can't." Instead he used the phrase "deal with, one way or another," which of course can mean anything from "negotiate with" to "militarily annihilate." (Why he's considered a straight-talker is beyond me.)
See here:
I notice that Obama took it hook line and sinker! What a buffoon!
Let me get this straight, Pulosi goes to Syria with hat in hand. Carter goes to meet and grovel with Hamas.
Durbin and other Senators stand on forign soil and denounce the President and his policies and the US in general. Mutha calls our troops murders and thugs. AlQuada then uses their comments for their own propaganda, And now these same seditionist are saying that "politics stops at the waters edge"!
President Bush needs to pour it on! He is exposing these traitors for what they are!
Daniel Larson has made a good point over at The American Conservative:
"James [Poulos] is right when he says: 'Obama’s remarks may make for wrongheaded policy — I happen to think that in some instances they do and in some they don’t — but Bush’s remarks typify the clumsy, overgeneralized, harping, dull, and rote approach to democratization that has made his administration such a sustained failure.' Certainly, that is what should be emphasised about Bush’s speech, along with its basic conceptual error that negotiations are an exercise in persuasion.... [Y]ou can pretend that diplomacy has something to do with being nice and yielding to your rivals, as I assume Mr. Bush must believe for him to equate it with appeasement, which is almost the exact opposite of what proper diplomacy is. It doesn’t matter to me that much whether or not Bush was referring to Obama.... What concerns me is that [the] idea that Mr. Bush’s style of foreign policy can still be presented as self-evidently right and competent in the face of a mountain of evidence that it is neither."
Jeesh, he wasn't even referenced in the speech and he wet his little pants. Oh, and he had no idea what his pastor was saying for 20 years. Hilarious. I wish Bush would do this more often.
Poor little obamy. Obviously it hit a nerve and rightly so. Chamberlain, Mk. 2,367.
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Boo-f'ing-hoo, Obama!
What's the saying? A kicked dog yelps?