16 May 2008

Crossing the line

One would think with all of that fancy-dancy elitist Ivy League education behind him that Captain Codpiece would at least be aware of the difference between appeasement and negotiation. One would be wrong! I guess G.H.W. Bush pissed all that money down the drain.

This thinly veiled attack on Senator Obama also ignores the fact that his own Secretary of Defense has called for talks between the US and Iran and that his own government has spent considerable time negotiating with appeasing state sponsors of terror in Tripoli and Pyongyang.

Despite the clear inaccuracy of his intended point it is also well beyond the pale to use the forum of a speech, in his role as head of state, to a foreign parliament to embark on issues related to domestic politics. It also makes clear that he has no intent to act as an honest broker in the middle east thereby eliminating any slim chance that there might have been to see any progress towards peace during the thankfully short remainder of his term.

Somehow I doubt that will bother him much. After all peacemakers don't wear codpieces!

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