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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: one_less who wrote (247039)10/30/2007 10:35:03 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
You are engaging the favorite game of pretend that liberals play during any Republican administration: pretending that if diplomacy hasn't achieved any results, it's because nobody tried it. Everybody knows them nasty Republicans can't do diplomacy, right?

Loud howls about how nobody's trying to talk about mutually beneficial outcomes are par for the course.

If a diplomatic breakthrough should occur (recent North Korean negotiations come to mind), they are met with silence. How do you applaud diplomacy that you claimed didn't exist?

If you opened your eyes, you might have noticed how many people have been trying to negotiate with the mullahs, and to what result. They don't want to reach agreements. Their stance has been extremely aggressive and is getting more so. They like their returns on their Hizbullah investment, and are trying to leverage them elsewhere. Hizbullah is in Iraq training the JAM, and the JAM is killing American soldiers.

The mullahs don't think there are any mutually beneficial results to be had. They are playing a zero sum game. Even the Euros get that by now. Even the Arab League gets it. That's why not a single member of the Arab League condemned Israel's recent raid on Syria - even though Syria is still a member of the Arab League!
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