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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush on Thursday sharply criticized foreign policies advocated by Democratic front-runner Barack Obama, saying it would be a mistake to meet the leaders of Iran and Cuba without preconditions or swiftly change course in Iraq.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080228/...sa_politics_dc
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Any of you amateur foreign-policy experts want to offer a very simple (so I can understand it) explanation of why it's a bad idea to talk to hostile foreign governments? Not to capitulate to them, of course. Just to talk.
To me, this refusal just seems juvenile. (Plus, would we be lending that much status to some dictator to allow him to sit in a room with Bush?)