Maguire comments: Obama's supporters are too young to know any of this, but Roosevelt led the United States in the war against Hitler; the Allied policy was unconditional surrender, so there was very little for Roosevelt and Hitler to discuss, and in fact, the two did not meet at all (but they did exchange correspondence before the war).
So my guess is that Obama is thinking of the Yalta Conference with Churchill and Stalin as talking to "our enemies," although of course we were still allied with the Soviet Union against Germany and Japan at that point. Beyond that, is the Yalta Conference something Obama and his advisers view as a success worthy of emulation? Puzzling. And the United States has been talking with Iran right along in any event. It's not for lack of communication that Iran has been conducting its war on the United States. Obama may not be knowledgeable enough to know he doesn't want to emulate Roosevelt at Yalta. |
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