Bush Assails ‘Appeasement,’ Touching Off Storm

“Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have an obligation to call this what it is: the false comfort of appeasement.”

— George Bush

“I constantly reject this notion that any hint of strategies involving diplomacy are somehow soft or indicate surrender or means that you are not going to crack down on terrorism”

— Barack Obama

Anti-diplomatic, non-negotiation…