"Foreign policy is the area where I am probably most confident that I know more and understand the world better than Senator Clinton and Senator McCain...."   - B. Obama  "I trust the American people to understand that it is not weakness, but wisdom to talk not just to our friends, but to our enemies, like Roosevelt did, and Kennedy did, and Truman did."   - B. Obama  Mr. Obama has already been taken to task for the first of these naïve statements by Hillary Clinton   and for the second by Jack Kelly. I would like to add a footnote to Kelly's analysis.Roosevelt actually did once try to negotiate with Hitler, not in person but by telegram. The exercise turned out to be not only futile but embarrassing. On April 14, 1939, in the hope of easing the tensions in Europe, Roosevelt sent a public telegram that began:"You realize I am sure that throughout the world hundreds of millions of human beings are living today in...(Read Full Post)