"The soft comfort of appeasement"

CNN:

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In a speech before the Knesset, Bush compared calls to talk with unnamed terrorist groups as a "foolish delusion" that was suggested before World War II.

"As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared, 'Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided,' " Bush said. "We have an obligation to call this what it is -- the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."

Former President Jimmy Carter recently wrapped up a trip to the Middle East, which included talks with leaders of Hamas -- an Islamic militant group that controls the Palestinian territory of Gaza.

Carter hoped to persuade Hamas to negotiate with Israel in an attempt to reach a broader Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.

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Reacting to the speech Obama suggested he resembled that remark. "George Bush knows that I have never supported engagement with terrorists, and the president's extraordinary politicization of foreign policy and the politics of fear do nothing to secure the American people or our stalwart ally Israel."

He clearly does support engagement with the state sponsors of terrorist like Hamas and Hezballah. Obama is all for the fools errand of talking to Ahmadinejad. I noticed he did drop FDR from his list of former Presidents willing to talk with the enemy. But his examples were all from the cold war.

BTW, the White House denies Obama was a target of the speech. Oh well, when you have a campaign war room you feel like you have to use it. Maybe Obama needs to work on war room disarmament.

Ed Morrissey looks at the liberal hysteria over the President's historical remarks.

John McCain agrees with Bush on appeasement.