Demokrater generelt og Barack Obama spesielt reagerte kraftig på president Bush’ uttalelser om naive politikere som tror de kan få terrorister på bedre tanker ved å snakke med dem.
Ut fra sammenhengen var det vanskelig ikke å tenke på Obama. Bush sa dette i sin tale til Knesset.
As the workday began stateside, Bush gave a speech to Israel’s Knesset in which he spoke of the president of Iran, who has called for the destruction of the U.S. ally. Then, the president said: “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,” Bush added.
Obama says Bush falsely accused him of appeasement
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