Bush the appeaser
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
What a difference eight weeks make.
On May 15, President Bush mocked Americans who want diplomatic dialogue with Iran — comparing them to appeasers who bargained with Hitler:
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.
Last night the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper announced the U.S. plans to open a diplomatic mission in Iran.
Why the about-face? Yo no se.
Maybe those Iranian missiles last week made a bigger impression on the White House than I thought.
Maybe President Bush finally realized that, when oil is at $140 per barrel, oil-addicted nations should try to avoid threatening to start war that could reduce the world’s daily supply of oil by 40%.
Maybe Bush started reading my column.
Whatever happened, I can’t imagine the McCain campaign is pleased with Bush’s flip-flop.
McCainiacs can’t attack Obama for wanting to talk with Iran when President Bush is opening diplomatic missions there.
Bush can do McCain a favor though and denounce himself as an appeaser.











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