Bush, the great statesman, addresses the Israeli Parliament

This week President Bush delivered a speech to the Israeli parliament commemorating the 60th anniversary of Israel. In his speech, Bush made the ridiculous claim that Senator Barack Obama and the Democrats favor a policy of appeasement toward terrorists. He compared the Democrats to WWII politicians as: “other U.S. leaders back in the run-up to World War II who appeased the Nazis.”

In his speech, Bush said, “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.”

White House aides are acknowledging that this was a reference to the fact that Obama and other Democrats have publicly said that it would be ok for the U.S. President to meet with leaders like the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad. Of course, the current policy of burying one’s head in the sand and refusing to talk to our adversaries has been so effective.

Where would this country be if Kennedy had not talked to Kruschev; had Nixon not talked to the Chinese; if Reagan had not talked to Gorbachev? Bush’s short sided, our way or the highway mentality has done tremendous damage to this country’s standing in the world. Thank God this reign of terror will end in eight months.