Diplomacy? No Diplomacy? Diplomacy? No Diplomacy?

The column I reference is actually Sen. Biden blustering against President Bush's address before the Israeli Knesset where he warned of appeasing terrorists.

Editor,

I was pleased to see liberal extremist, Sen. Joseph Biden (D, DE) acknowledging the diplomatic efforts of President Bush and the Boston Globe having the journalistic integrity to publish the quote (Biden comes out punching, May 23, A15)?

Sen. Biden said, "The day before the President spoke (in the Knesset), his own secretary of defense called for engaging with Iran. His secretary of state has done so repeatedly. The President himself authorized American diplomats to meet with ther Iranian counterparts about Iraq. And he struck a deal with Libya's Khadafy and wrote polite letters to North Korea's Kim Jong Il . . . ."

That "deal with . . . Khadafy"? It was just for Libya to completely dismantle its nuclear weapons program. But why share this in the column? Journalistic integrity only goes so far, I guess. (End of letter.)