One Reason I'm Not Completely Disenchanted with George W. Bush
Despite his protectionism, despite his fiscal profligacy, despite his over-reliance on Cheney et al. and the lack of WMD in Iraq, I like Bush's sense of history when he recently said this, quoted in Reuters:
[h/t Ted Belman]
[h/t Ted Belman]
"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," Bush said.It isn't surprising, but it is disappointing, that democratic leaders were outraged by Bush's remarks.
Without mentioning Obama by name, Bush compared "this foolish delusion" to the prelude to World War Two.
"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," he said.
Category: International Affairs, Israel, Middle East Posted on
Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 1:41am
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The White House claims, and it is entirely reasonable to make this claim, that they are Talking about Jimmy Carter in the first place.