You Don’t Play Poker Via Videophone…
…and the wrong way to negotiate with leaders who both deny one Holocaust and threaten another is to ignore those leaders as if they don’t exist. We did that for a while with Hitler before our entrance into WWII, and that strategy turned out to be less than fine and dandy. Shame on Bush and his speechwriters for turning history on its head (more on that in the postscript). Between the American GI’s and the European and Russian Jews who died, turning a blind eye and refusing to engage may have cost tens of millions of lives.
Any good poker player will vouch for the value of the “tell”, that tip-off that’s only perceivable in person. There are political equivalents to the eye twitch, the chip shuffle, the finger tap, and the sweaty brow.
So when Senator Obama says he’s willing to talk, perhaps in person, to leaders whose intransigence has not, and will not change by simply maintaining the cold shoulder status quo, why in the world is his declaration taken both out of context and solely to a negative place? Maybe he’s holding better cards than President Bush has, like, say, a high IQ and a sixth sense that’s both exceptional and pragmatic. Our best leaders, in their defining moments of crisis, called more than a few bluffs (think Kennedy in the Cuban missile crisis) and won the pot.
Any Jewish leaders who accept without question today’s disingenuous grandstanding by Bush in Israel had best re-open their history books, and get their heads out of the Arabian sand. Any Jewish leader or voter who’s willing to accept the undeniable alliance between the U.S. and Israel that Obama has affirmed, and then take a shot at matching wits with the Iranians, may be just the kind of card shark that’s able to win this high stakes game of liar’s poker.
P.S. Concerning Bush and his speechwriters, it’s one thing for a guy who couldn’t run a major league baseball team, or a bunch of oil companies his daddy set him up with (or a country for that matter), to twist history around like a rancid pretzel and not be aware that it’s his approach that mimics the placating mistakes of WWII, not Obama’s. It’s another thing, and perhaps a worse sin, for his speechwriters, who no doubt know better because they actually had to study and learn in order to earn their diplomas, to blindly follow instructions and bake said pretzel.
Blindly following instructions. A Nazi defense, a Vietnam atrocity defense, and now a Bush speechwriter defense.
Dubya’s despicable speech can be found below:
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