Thursday, May 15, 2008

But We May Not Speak Of It. And Therefore It Begins.


Bush in Israel says "Masada shall never fall again." And he adds, "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."

href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/05/obama-takes-iss.html">Obama
says
, how dare you speak of me in that way?

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Peter Wehner at href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/wehner/6431">Commentary
says:


Obama’s faux anger in reaction to Bush’s speech is ludicrous. For one thing,
the President did not even mention Senator Obama in his speech. What the
President was rebutting was a (fairly prevalent) cast of mind, one which is
shared by Obama but by many others–including Jimmy Carter, who just returned
from the region