If I may digress from the brickeresque parsing of Obama’s and Bush’s starting points for negotiations, the “appeasement” yammerers are the same lot that harp on Obama’s “apology tour”. Reading the texts of Obama’s speeches on foreign soil, I honestly don’t have a clue as to what they’re talking about. Unless of course, “apology” translates in Rightese as saying anything but “Hooyah! We’re bad ass muthafuckahs and if you’re not for us, you’re against us and we’ll kick your ass!”
Careful there, Bob. I said much the same thing upthread, and I got accused of … hyperbole. :eek:
People are acting like Obama proposed 1947 borders as a starting point for negotiations. Obama’s foreign policy credentials are fucking impeccable. He may not be genuflecting to the conservatives in Israel as much as some would like (and conservatives here certainly like to point it out) but its hard to paint a guy that routinely invades Pakistani airspace, kills Osama bin laden, brings down Qaddafi, etc. as appeasing the fucking Palestinians. What does Obama have to fear from the Palestinians? If international terrorists don’t scare him why would anyone think that these guys living under the miltia5ry control of the Israelis scare him.
Isn’t it possible, that he is taking the position he is taking because he believes that is the correct position and not because he is trying to appease someone?
I mean you might as well accuse Doug Feith of being an Israel appeaser. Obama’s position on the Israel conflict may not be as onesided as his predecessors but its been a long time coming.