I Hate What You Just Said

Remember when George Bush addressed the Israeli Knesset on the 60th anniversary of the state of Israel and mocked Barack Obama’s idea that we should engage our enemies in dialog? You know, the speech where he said this:

Some seem to believe we should negotiate with 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 only I could have talked to Hitler, all of 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.

Guess what!

The Bush administration has now decided that they will send one of our highest ranking diplomats to “participate in international talks with Iran this weekend”:

President George W. Bush has authorized the most significant U.S. diplomatic contact with Iran since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, sending the U.S. State Department’s third-ranking official to Geneva for a meeting this weekend on Iran’s nuclear program, administration officials said.

The decision appeared to bend, if not exactly break, the administration’s insistence that it would not negotiate with Iran over its nuclear programs unless it first suspended uranium enrichment.

I’m going with “break.”