John McCain was for negotiating with Hamas before he was against it. (Via.)
On that note, David Brooks has an interesting column about Obama on Hezbollah. He starts out skeptical, even hostile, then presses Obama further and gets a remarkably nuanced set of answers on the Lebanon crisis.
Obama is striking exactly the right balance: No to Bush’s cowboy diplomacy, no to ultra-left apologetics (or worse) for terror. Negotiate, don’t accommodate.
All this hypothetical talk about the need to engage Iran can make you forget that the U.S. has already been negotiating with Iran. (At least until recently.) In the recent Basra fighting, as Fred Kaplan has noted, the U.S. and Iran were on the same side.
Anyhow, Bush has quite a nerve to lecture the next president on foreign policy, huh?
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