During what was reported as a long speech, Bush implicitly likened Democratic front-runner Barack Obama's commitment to talk to Middle East leaders as being akin to appeasing the Nazis. He went on to say:
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," Bush said. "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, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.
It doesn't take "some ingenious argument" to see that Bush has made some grievous errors of judgment during his terms as US president. Among them is his tendency to vilify and attack people he doesn't like, with little regard to the evidence of the real level of risk they may represent to the United States or any other country. His claims that pre-invasion Iraq had WMD and links to Al Qaeda were both unfounded. Comparing any of these leaders to Adolf Hitler is bizarre and inaccurate.
Given Bush's primary presumptions about the Syrian and Iranian leaders can be demonstrated to be incorrect, his conclusions based on those presumptions aren't worth serious consideration.
No "ingenious argument" is required. The evidence is all anyone needs to clearly see Bush's many failures for what they are.
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