While in Jerusalem today to help Israel celebrate its 60th anniversary, President Bush said this:

“Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals.  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.”

The White House initially said the President was not referring to Barack Obama, but come on:  “an American senator” who engaged in the naive wishful thinking that had he only talked to Hitler, “all this might have been avoided?”

Sounds a lot like Obama to me.

It must have sounded a lot like Obama to Obama too, because he put out an incredibly defensive statement:  “It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 60th anniversary of Israel’s independence to launch a false political attack.  George Bush knows that I have never supported engagement with terrorists.”

Pardon me:  several months ago, during the Democratic YouTube debate, Anderson Cooper asked Obama point blank if he would talk—without preconditions—to the leaders of Iran and Syria.  He replied, “I would.”  Iran and Syria are the biggest state sponsors of terror in the world.

Three questions for Obama:  if you want to talk to our terrorist enemies, 1) what are you prepared to say?; 2) are you naive enough to believe what they may tell you?;  and 3) if talks fail, are you prepared to use force, whether military, economic, political?

You can’t just gas around with terrorists and tyrants and expect them to use “talks” as anything other than time to regroup, rearm, and re-strategize.  Their interests and objectives aren’t about to change just because a charming American has some milk n’ cookies with them.

If Obama is this prickly about a remark like this, he is certainly not capable of withstanding the withering attacks that will come his way from home and abroad should he be elected president.  At the sign of the first attack, he will melt like the Wicked Witch of the West.  (And you thought that role belonged to Hillary.)

Obama had better man up or he’s going to dissolve into a puddle of his own girly-manhood.

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