In a speech before the Israeli Parliament, George W. Bush accused those like Barrack Obama who want to sit down with Middle Eastern leaders of being appeasers like Neville Chamberlain. Afterwards, John McCain reiterated that he wouldn’t negotiate with terrorists.
President Bush has plenty of his own appeasers. The British now think of former Prime Minister Tony Blair as an appeaser. In America, Fox News is the Monica Lewinski of journalism, always ready to provide lip service to the president. McCain’s support for the president’s statements sounds like appeasement, especially from a man who hopes to distance himself from the president.
Diplomacy is not appeasement. Winston Churchill practiced diplomacy. So did U.S. presidents like Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. I can understand that, for all his tough talk, President Bush is too timid to sit down at a table with his enemies.
I can’t understand why McCain is.
President Bush has plenty of his own appeasers. The British now think of former Prime Minister Tony Blair as an appeaser. In America, Fox News is the Monica Lewinski of journalism, always ready to provide lip service to the president. McCain’s support for the president’s statements sounds like appeasement, especially from a man who hopes to distance himself from the president.
Diplomacy is not appeasement. Winston Churchill practiced diplomacy. So did U.S. presidents like Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. I can understand that, for all his tough talk, President Bush is too timid to sit down at a table with his enemies.
I can’t understand why McCain is.
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