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Steve Young columns
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"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. We have heard this foolish delusion before. 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." -- G.W. Bush, Israeli Knesset, May 15, 2008
Wow.
Overseas, in another country, the President demeaned the man who may well become our next President...with our men and women in harm's way, yet.
But he not only blasphemed Barack Obama, he also took a cheap shot at his own administration. Besides Secretary of Defense Robert Gates already on record saying we need to talk with Iran, Bush's own team has held negotiations with North Korea.
I imagine the repercussions will be dire.
No doubt, Senator Lieberman will find the President using the Israeli Knesset as a platform for American politics and Nazi comparisons to be, at the least, in bad taste.
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