It occurs to me that the McBush Republican attack on Senator Obama's call for diplomacy has nothing to do with the nuance of foreign policy and everything to do with the on-going bottom-of-the-barrel strategy of painting the Senator as "with the terrorists."
So I laugh whenever I hear pundits asking Republicans to explain their position on Iran/Hamas/etc. The Republicans could answer to charges of hypocrisy and flipflopping by making balloon animals and it wouldn't matter. The substance of the attack is the attack itself. Nothing more.