With the Democratic nomination looking reasonably secure for Obama the republicans have fired the first negative attack at him. Bush said that Obama's desire to talk to groups like Hamas is akin to the appeasement of the Nazis, such as Chamberlain did with Hitler in Munich. He did this in Israel, which I think is no accident.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS...ast/index.html
Not only is this a real dirty and unfair attack, but it's also illogical. Hamas are not akin to Nazi Germany in any way, the entire thing is different, the only apt comparison you could make is to the IRA. It's a weak comparison but certainly better than Nazi germany and the only reason that analogy was not used was because talking to the IRA
did work.
There is also a difference between talking to groups like Hamas and appeasement. Does Bush know what appeasement is? Do Americans? What Chamberlain did was appeasement (although he should not be demonised for trying, it's easy attack that in hindsight) but what Obama and Carter are advocating is simply entering a dialogue with a group that controls palestinian.
It's a long time till November..
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Can a mod correct the title? "Bush accuses Obama of appeasement" would be fine or at least the correction of Chamberling to Chamberlain. Cheers