Bush's Powerful Knesset Speech

President George W. Bush spoke today before Israel's Knesset in celebration of Israel's 60th Anniversary and had strong words for those leaders that believe words are enough to fight terrorists:

"Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along," the President said to the country's legislative body, "We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of 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 seems that Barack Obama thought Bush was speaking about him, as if the world revolved around Obama:

"It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 60th anniversary of Israel's independence to launch a false political attack," Obama said in the statement his aides distributed. "George Bush knows that I have never supported engagement with terrorists, and the president's extraordinary politicization of foreign policy and the politics of fear do nothing to secure the American people or our stalwart ally Israel."

If Obama is elected the leader of the free world one would hope that he'll soon learn there are more important concerns on the President's horizon than whether he is being attacked politically. . .such as whether Iran's President Ahmadinejhad is building nuclear weapons or getting ready to lob one at "our stalwart ally Israel."

Instead Obama's kneejerk reaction to Bush's speech reveals something considerably more disconcerting: an inability by Barack to take matters of foreign policy seriously outside the realm of his own personal well-being, and more importantly an inability to be concerned about affairs of state that don't concern himself.