When the President of the United States has to go to another country to talk politics, it’s downright disgusting.  This week we saw the H.V. President of these United States of America stand before the elected Knesset-body of Israel and denounce “negotiating with terrorists and radicals.”  The President went on to claim that such efforts at negotiations ultimately result in an appeasement policy similar to the one Western Europe used with Nazi Germany.  A few things are wrapped up in the H.V. President’s speech.

Appeasement vs. Negotiations

First he misconstrues the term “negotiations” to be synonymous with “appeasement.”  However, 99% of the rest of the population *should* understand that negotiations at the very least involve talking to an adversarial party.  At most, negotiations entail talking with the adversary with the explicit task of making demands and giving ground on certain issues, a give and take, if you will.  Appeasement, on the other hand, involves only giving into the demands of the aggressor, whereby talking and discussion may or may not take place.  Two entirely different terms, and anybody with a dictionary and a brain can realize the difference.

Democrats

H.V. President’s speech also dealt with the fact that America should not negotiate with “terrorists orradicals.”  Lumping the two into the same statement, shows the idiocy of the President.  Terrorist may also be radicals, but radicals may not be terrorists.  Which is too bad for the President and his administration because they’ve already undertaken negotiations with radical regimes around the world, some of which supported terrorism.  The H.V. President must, therefore, be attacking certain Democrats who have openly stated and undertaken similarly actions to those taken by the current President’s regime.  Unless of course we are to ascertain that he is not attacking Democrats in which case he is then attacking his own policies, which would only further prove he is a complete bumbling idiot.

But let’s assume he is attacking Democrats who have undertaken certain policies similar to that of the H.V. President.  For example former H.V. President Jimmy Carter, who openly spoke with an exiled Hamas leader.  Carters actions were opposed by Israel and the U.S.  Israel went so far as to refuse to provide security for the former President while he stayed and toured in Israel.  Another example of who the H.V. President attacked would be H.E. Senator Barack Obama.  Obama openly supports direct, face-to-face, talks with our adversaries, but not with leaders of terrorist organizations.  The current President, however, has maintained that low-level talks amongst non-significant, politically appointed, State Department officials and our advesaries will achieve peace and stability around the world.  A dumb-ass policy by the sound of it.