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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
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
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You don't think that talking to the Iranians right now, and appealing to them for help, is going to make it more difficult for us to convince them to discontinue their pursuit of nuclear weapons?