No Lack Of Clarity In This Dig
June 18, 2007 at 5:04 pm
A great, none-too-subtle jab by Tony Snow today against Bill Clinton’s war on terrorism:
Q On the Mideast peace process in general, does the President have any regrets that early in his administration he didn’t engage more fully in the process and maybe that has backfired?
MR. SNOW: I think what the President did early on was make it clear that we’re not going to deal with terrorists. Yasser Arafat, as you know, was in power. He had been the most frequent visitor to this White House in the previous administration. And President Clinton I think had expressed considerable exasperation about the lack of returns for it. What the President had done was maintain a sense of moral clarity about who you’re going to deal with.
AnonymousCoward said,
June 18, 2007 @ 8:39 pm
This policy of not speaking with “terrorists” is terrible because it prevents any progress from being achieved.
By taking such a hard line you limit your own options. This makes little sense. During that time everyone just stay in their own corner and nothing changes.
Look what that great policy got us in Iraq (we don’t talk to the Iranians, debathification, etc.)