This is what Dubya had to say during Israel's 60th-birthday celebrations, a thinly-veiled barb at Obama:
“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 heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: “Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all 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.”
Of course, as the Obama camp argues, the Bush foreign policy has done more to strengthen and embolden Iran, and threaten Israel, than any degree of talking could ever purport to do.
Of course, despite these loud proclamations, the US is holding lower-level talks with Iran and Syria.
Of course, two years ago, John McCain, despite echoing these statements as of late, is on record for promoting talks with Hamas.
And of course, if we start making comparisons to Nazism, we could make parallels to wall-building and ghettoizing as well.
The NYT's take on Bush's words and video of McCain's
