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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
And its wrong for Carter, Baker, et al (and the other men who have outlived their usefulness) to even suggest we "talk" to Iran, when right at this very moment they are hosting an international conference to determine whether the Holocaust "really occurred".
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Wrong. You need to talk to your enemies as much or more than your friends. That doesn't mean you let the need to talk force you into inappropriate concessions, and it doesn't mean you ever necessarily agree on much, but if you don't talk you won't resolve much short of war.
To do otherwise is a fourth-grade approach to diplomacy and foreign policy which has been one of this Administration's great weaknesses. Think about it? Should Reagan have refused to talk to the Soviets? And we talked to worse (if that is possible) under both RR's administration and his successors.
S_A_M
