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05.17.2008 10:40 am
What’s the difference between diplomacy and appeasement?
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

As if President Bush, hadnʼt contributed much to the present plight of the country with the devastating Iraq War and the pathetic situation of the U.S economy, that he started engaging in presidential politics in his recent trip to Israel, while indirectly commencing Sen.Obamaʼs support talks with Iran as a notion of making friends with a Nazi like regime. Sen. McCain on the other hand has been crying aloud, that what does Sen. Obama have to talk with Ahmedinejad? To this, the question that really erupts out of the situation is that if talking to an opponent is wrong then I guess President Bush shouldnʼt be talking with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, after all 15 out of 19 hijackers of 9/11 came from that same country. In fact it is that same country that us had led to the rise of gas prices in our country to incredible heights but then why is our president meeting this King twice in a row within six months. I guess thatʼs what we call diplomacy, though hypocrisy is the right word for the right.

 

Raghvendra Singh

Warrensburg


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