During Israel's 60th anniversary, President Bush identified one key similarity between Obama's "appeasement" towards Iran and Neville Chamberlain's ultimate mistake: talking to Hitler. As Joe Biden consequently remarked, "this is bulls**t" (Note: Biden talks with asterisks). While talking to the Israeli Knesset (like Congress, but spelled funny), Bush made the following connection:

"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."

Bush is right about one thing: Obama is a fool for trying to talk to Iran now that Iran has begun a blitzkrieg against Europe. But Bush forgets the worst crime of them all: Neville Chamberlain once tried to talk to Hitler.

In a foolish bout of romanticism, Chamberlain opened negotiations with the enemy. Hitler would never have had the gall to annex Austria if he knew Neville Chamberlain wouldn't talk to him anymore. If every major power in Europe had completely ignored Nazi Germany, Hitler would have buckled under the weight of not talking and forgotten to massacre Jews. Germany would be too scared to commit genocide if they knew no one would say anything to them about it.

As long as Iran believes that America might try negotiating with them, they will continue to build weapons of mass destruction and export terrorists to Iraq. Luckily, now that negotiation is considered appeasement, the only other alternative to ignoring atrocities is war. Step back diplomacy, you're getting in the way again!

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