The Mad Rants of an Unconventional Soccer Mom

Washington met with the British; Eisenhower met with Stalin; Truman met with Korea; Nixon met with China; Reagan met with Russia and IRAN; GHW Bush met with Quaddafi. And yet, according to W’s foreign policy doctrine you should never talk to the “enemy” - that is unless he’s doing, like when he was negotiating with North Korea, which is a state sponsor of terrorism. That’s ok! Or maybe the only time it is wrong is when a democratic leader wants to find a peaceful, diplomatic solution with an adversarial nation instead of attacking it – then they are no different than “Nazi appeasers”:

In a particularly sharp blast from halfway around the world, President Bush suggested Thursday that Sen. Barack Obama and other Democrats are in favor of “appeasement” of terrorists in the same way U.S. leaders appeased Nazis in the run-up to World War II.

“Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along,” said Bush, in what White House aides privately acknowledged was a reference to calls by Obama and other Democrats for the U.S. president to sit down for talks with leaders like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

“We have heard this foolish delusion before,” Bush said in remarks to the Israeli Knesset. “As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American Senator declared: ‘Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of 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.”

The remarks seemed to be a not-so-subtle attempt to continue to raise doubts about Obama with Jewish-Americans.

What a sad little war mongering pathetic man. All Mr. 28% has is fear. He certainly doesn’t have any class, intelligence, or honor. He flew halfway around the world only to deliver a cheap and foolish political shot at the Obama. You know, I expect this kind of behavior from a half-assed third world strongman like Robert Mugabe, but not the President of the United States of America. Oh and will someone please get him a dictionary already? In his illiterate mind diplomacy is equivalent to appeasement. It is not.

Luckily, we will soon have a President that believes in statesmanship and diplomacy. It will be none too soon. Obama immediately responded:

"It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 60th anniversary of Israel's independence to launch a false political attack," Obama said in the statement his aides distributed. "George Bush knows that I have never supported engagement with terrorists, and the president's extraordinary politicization of foreign policy and the politics of fear do nothing to secure the American people or our stalwart ally Israel."

Oh and McCain decided that he wanted to jump into it and stuck his foot in his mouth when the press asked him about it:

“Yes, there have been appeasers in the past, and the president is exactly right, and one of them is Neville Chamberlain,'’ Mr. McCain told reporters on his campaign bus after a speech in Columbus, Ohio. “I believe that it’s not an accident that our hostages came home from Iran when President Reagan was president of the United States. He didn’t sit down in a negotiation with the religious extremists in Iran, he made it very clear that those hostages were coming home.'’

Umm...McCain isn't doing a very bad job of remembering history? The Iran-Contra scandal, where Reagan funneled weapons to Iran in return for hostage releases, was kind of a big story. Mr. Foreign Policy Experience has been making a lot of gaffes lately.