MY TURN

Just when you think politics and politicians can’t go any lower, a sink-hole forms and we reach new depths. The sink-hole in this instance is President George Bush’s mouth. In a speech before the Knessett, (the Israeli Parliament), he declared that all democrats who believe in “diplomacy” is appeasing our enemies! He likened Barak Obama, Jimmie Carter, and others to an American senator in 1939 who lamented that he “wished he could have talked to Hitler before the war started”.

I understand that diplomacy is not a word in President Bush’s vocabulary. He would rather strap on the six-guns, then sit at his desk and commit our young men and women to war. Who knows how many lives could have been saved throughout history if leaders had spent more time talking and less time killing.

America was built on diplomacy. We helped whenever anyone needed it, and we fought whenever we were attacked. We did not spend our time looking for possible enemies, and annihilating them first.

Shame on you George Bush for using the fear factor in a speech to a friendly government. You seem to believe that fear generates respect. I taught my child that respect is earned, whether it is in personal relationships or the business world. I believe that goes for governments and countries as well.

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