Dirty Campaign Tactics on Middle East Policy
James Rubin, former chief of State Department | May 16, 2008
The campaigning for the US Presidential Election has gotten ugly on Middle East foreign policy. ++ In his speech to the Israeli Knesset, President Bush accused Obama of appeasing with Hamas. ++ It is "hard to remember any president abusing the prestige of his office in as crude a way as Bush did yesterday." ++ Senator McCain made Hamas a campaign issue in the first place. ++ Practicing "hypocrisy" tactics, McCain's radical position not to negotiate with Hamas today contradicts his remarks on that issue two years ago.
