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Kristol: Methinks Obama Doth Protest Too Much

2:44 PM, May 15, 2008 • By WILLIAM KRISTOL
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President Bush, speaking to the Israeli Knesset, today:

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.

Barack Obama is upset at this statement by President Bush. Why? What does he disagree with? Shouldn't he just have seconded the president's admonition against falling for such a foolish delusion. Or does he know that his promise to talk with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad puts him in the camp of the foolish delusionists?

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