President Bush’s Knesset speech has created a furor and those who fear and resent the truth have reacted accordingly. Whether or not the speech was really directed at Obama and his ilk is for Bush to know and the world to wonder. The truth as President sees it is that negotiating with bad people is generally bad business. He provided ample history to make his point, and none of his protagonists have demonstrated where negotiating with really bad people makes much sense—at least historically. This brings me to the question of Myanmar. Here we have a regime that is among the most brutal in the world, at least in modern times. To say the least, they are bad guys. If two weeks ago, they expressed an intention to kill 150,000 of their citizens, just on general principles, the world understandably would have been outraged. But how much negotiation would have prevented them from doing it. Threats maybe, but not negotiation. For the last two weeks the International Community has been unable to negotiate even the slimmest of access to Myanmar to provide humanitarian relief. One would likely think that if you can’t negotiate with bad guys when the only thing at stake is humanitarian relief, then negotiations when our freedom and our way of life is on the table might not be a prudent thing to do.