Like Obama, Are McCain's Friends 'Naive' To?

You don't make peace with friends, you make peace with very unsavory enemies." --Yitzhak Rabin

During the Presidential debates, John McCain has tried to point out Barak Obama's lack of experience as to why he is not suited for command. Without fail he has tried to hammer home the outrageous idea of 'negotiating with our enemies [without pre-conditions]" , which Barak Obama has endorsed. Going in so far as chuckling at the idea, during the debates.

Is John McCain correct, is this such a bad idea? Why don't we check with other notable Replublicans:

Brent Scowcroft: The national security adviser to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush. Scowcroft, a former Air Force general who is widely considered to be one of the preeminent foreign policy minds in the United States.

When asked by The Huffington Post whether he thought the next president should meet with the likes of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he responded "Absolutely, It's hard to make things better if you don't talk."

Prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Scowcroft expressed public misgivings concerning the course of action. In 2002, he wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed titled, "Don't Attack Saddam," and warned that action against Iraq, without a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, "could turn the whole region into a cauldron and thus destroy the war on terrorism."

James Baker: Former Secretary of State, whom John McCain refers as one of the "smartest" men he knew and that he was likely to ask Baker to serve as a diplomatic envoy to the Middle East.

October 6, Baker said "talking to an enemy is not, in my view, appeasement."

Not only is John McCain willing to take the US down a path of further isolation, but contributing to its continued spiraling demise. His philosophy of walling off the enemy goes against the tactics used by some of the country's better known Republican and Cold War Presidents. Even as McCain conjures up the spirits of Reagan in his speeches, he fails to point out, possibly does not realizing, Reagan himself saw the need to sit down with [the enemy] Communist Russia.

Clint MacNichol -- The WoodLawn Review: [http://woodlawnreview.com]

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