Obama is in in Noam Chomskyland.

ISRAPUNDIT ^ | may 17/08 | Ted Belman

[tedbel]

David Brooks, writing in the NYT under the title Obama Admires Bush reports on his interview with Obama.

Barack Obama issued a statement in response. He called on “all those who have influence with Hezbollah” to “press them to stand down.” Then he declared, “It’s time to engage in diplomatic efforts to help build a new Lebanese consensus that focuses on electoral reform, an end to the current corrupt patronage system, and the development of the economy that provides for a fair distribution of services, opportunities and employment.”

Boy, is that ever tough talk. Obama acts like he invented the word "diplomacy" as if diplomacy hasn't been attempting to achieve results from the beginning.

That sentence has the whiff of what President Bush described yesterday as appeasement. Is Obama naïve enough to think that an extremist ideological organization like Hezbollah can be mollified with a less corrupt patronage system and some electoral reform? Does he really believe that Hezbollah is a normal social welfare agency seeking more government services for its followers? Does Obama believe that even the most intractable enemies can be pacified with diplomacy? What “Lebanese consensus” can Hezbollah possibly be a part of?

If Obama believes all this, he’s not just a Jimmy Carter-style liberal. He’s off in Noam Chomskyland.

That didn’t strike me as right, so I spoke with Obama Tuesday to ask him what he meant by all this.

Right off the bat he reaffirmed that Hezbollah is “not a legitimate political party.” Instead, “It’s a destabilizing organization by any common-sense standard. This wouldn’t happen without the support of Iran and Syria.”

[y6162]

“Is Obama naïve enough to think that an extremist ideological organization like Hezbollah can be mollified with a less corrupt patronage system..”

I don’t think Obama believes a word he says. He’s just trying to form phrases that he thinks will get him elected. If he does get elected, the crashing sound you will hear will be the dashed hopes of his voters.

[eggman]

Obama is an empty suit and when he speaks off the cuff on foreign policy he proves he has an empty head.

[Always Right]

[driftless2]

Putting Obama in the White House would be like dropping a bunny rabbit in a pit full of pythons. The guy, like all libs, is clueless. “But we’ll just talk to them. Then they’ll understand us and like us.” Tyrants from Hitler to Stalin have laughed behind their backs at the naive fools who thought they could negotiate with them. The current fascists running Iran are no different.