Amidst the uproar over George Bush politicizing the 60th anniversary
of Israel's independence, the media has been strangely silent about
the revelation that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, by George Bush
and John McCain's own definition, is guilty of "foolish delusion," and
lacks "the knowledge, the experience, the background to make the kind
of judgments that are necessary to preserve this nation's security."
Just one day before Bush declared that "some," also known as Barack
Obama, is an appeaser to terrorists, the likes of which have not been
seen since Hitler invaded Poland, and before John McCain chimed in by
saying Obama wanted to enhance "the prestige of a nation that's a
sponsor of terrorists and is directly responsible for the deaths of
brave young Americans," Robert Gates said:
" We need to figure out a way to develop some leverage with respect
to the Iranians and then sit down and talk with them. If there's going
to be a discussion, then they need something, too. We can't go to a
discussion and be completely the demander with them not feeling that
they need anything from us. "
And while there has been plenty of coverage of Bush's remarks,
McCain's parroting of Bush's remarks and Obama's smackdown of both of
them, no one seems to be covering Gates' policy of terrorist-enabling
appeasement. Or as Jamison Foser at Media Matters put it:
Naturally, then, a media firestorm erupted, with the Bush
administration and its political allies questioned all day about
whether Bush has any idea what he is talking about, whether he has
lost control over the Pentagon, whether Gates will be fired, what
Gates thinks about Bush's comparison of those (like Gates) who
advocate dialogue between the United States and Iran to appeasers of
Adolf Hitler, and whether the fiasco will remind voters that the Bush
administration's foreign policy has been marked by incompetence and
dishonesty, thus doing irreparable electoral damage to John McCain and
other Republican candidates.
Sorry -- what was I thinking? That didn't happen.
Foser points out that ABC, CBS, the New York Times, Wa****ngton Post,
Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Time and ABC's The Note, have all
extensively covered the "appeasement controversy," but have made no
mention of Gates' comments. Given that Dana Perino claimed that
Bush's remarks simply reflected "long-established United States
policy," why is the fact that Bush's own Secretary of Defense opposes
this policy not news?
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