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Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
The behavior of those states can also be influenced by isolating them and sanctioning them, which is exactly what Pelosi as well as the majority of our government decided to do in the Syria Accountability Act. Pelosi herself waxed poetic about how great it was that our President would be given, under the Act, the freedom to impose sanctions on the Syrian government which he did by Executive Order, after Powell's last ditch efforts to "talk to them" as you put it. Now all of a sudden Pelosi doesn't like the amount of U.S. "talking to them"? Bullshit.
BTW -- is that what we do with people who sponsor terrorism and help kill our soldiers? We keep "talking to them"? "Common sense" indeed.
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Uh, yes. You do do talk to enemies. It's part of diplomacy and has gone on for as long as people have divided themselves into tribes, nations, etc...
The idea is that sometimes that talking may create a breakthrough that might lead to a compromise that might save lives.
Do you agree with Laura Bush that we ought not to allow stem cell research because some say the chance of it yielding cures is not that great and even if they were to be found, that wouldn;t happen for many many years?
We should always talk. Talking and sanctioning/attacking aren't mutually exclusive. That we have one stated policy doesn't mean we can't explore other options through differnet channels. Why would we even have a CIA?
