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Barack Obama Responds to Bush and McCain Comments Regarding Foreign Policy
Less than 24 hours after President George Bush addressed Israel’s Knesset and condemned the belief that negotiating with terrorists and leaders of rogue nations could produce beneficial results Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama lashed out at the American president.
Calling Bush’s remarks divisive and appalling, Obama told a South Dakota audience that the speech was yet another example of how Bush has divided the country and led to the further alienation of the U.S. in the global community.
Obama was responding to Bush’s comments in which he 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 only I could have talked to Hitler, all of 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.”
While Bush never invoked Obama’s name the Illinois senator found the comments to be a direct attack on previous comments he had made. In those comments Obama had expressed a willingness to sit down with leaders of North Korea, Iran, Syria and other countries that are believed to sponsor terrorism.
For his part the presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain found no fault with Bush’s comments and said Obama’s foreign policy approach was fair game. On Friday Obama struck back and noted McCain’s foreign policy plans are directly in line with what Bush has adopted over the past eight years and that has led to an unpopular war that has costs American lives and billions of dollars.
Obama then openly welcomed a debate with Bush and McCain and expressed confidence he would win comfortably due to what he believed has been an inept government that McCain is willing to continue.
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