In today's Washington Post, James Rubin
writes that Johm McCain is a hypoctite on Hamas, because he
said after their election, "They're the government; sooner or later
we are going to have to deal with them, one way or another..." A
video of the comments made the rounds on liberal blogs, but it
struck me as odd, because everytime I have seen McCain quoted on
the subject of Hamas, it has been to say that the U.S. shouldn't
talk to them unless they changed their ways. Also, his statement
would be inconsistent with his opposition to dealing with Iran and
other state sponsors of terrorism. Soon enough, the McCain campaign
fired back with a video taken the same day, with McCain in the same
garb, only this time making it clear that dealing with Hamas would
not be unconditional. He said, "hopefully, that Hamas now that they
are going to govern, will be motivated to renounce this commitment
to the extinction of the state of Israel. Then we can do business
again, we can resume aid, we can resume the peace process. It's
very, very important though that they renounce this
commitment."
The two clips are below. You can decide for yourself.
topics:
Business, Iran, Israel
