Fleeing Thoughts: Finally, the Democrats Call It What It Is

-Barack Obama wants to talk to Iranian leaders, I guess about their general nuttiness or the weather in that part of the world or the concept of countries as stinking corpses or whatever. There seems to be confusion over idea of chatting with nutbags; Bush calls it appeasement but it is what his own defense secretary says we should do, and there is precedent for it. The Soviet Union was an Evil Empire with enough nuclear missiles aimed at US to obliterate US many times over. Yet we never stopped speaking to them. We talked their ears off for over 50 years and, ultimately, we were victorious. The West, and quite specifically, the United States, won the Cold War. By contrast, like a young girl throwing a hissy fit, we stopped talking to Castro soon after he took over Cuba, and he retained power for almost 50 years. Talking works. It is not always appeasement. Sometimes communicating is effective foreign policy, but that's not something the Bush administration would know anything about. It mystifies me why McCain would attach himself to W on this particular issue, or any issue regarding the Middle East, a region where W has been spectacularly unsuccessful. It's these quirks of thinking on McCain's part that make me worry about his decision making abilities.

-Why did it take so many years for a Democrat to have the balls to call out Bush on his never ending stream of bullshit? Where have they been? Did Democratic leaders all of a sudden look down and notice they had a set?