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To: elmatador who wrote (12798)	12/22/2006 1:19:25 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 218152

Ayman is advising the US to start talking with other guys who really can make a difference. We don't negotiate with terrorists. It's counter-productive, just encourages them to continue using terrorism as a strategy. Which makes it blackmail. And if you pay blackmail, you'll never stop. It's a chimera, like paying "protection money" to the Mafia. You become their bitches. History tells us that blackmail has been a fine art in the Middle East since recorded history. The only way to deal with blackmailers is to kill them. The people who really count in Iraq are the people of Iraq. When they get sick of what's going on around them, and stand up for themselves, it will end, and not a moment sooner. We've all observed over many years that there are people who are all too eager to roll over and present their rumps. There were Europeans, Africans, Middle Easterners, and Latin Americans, who presented their rumps to the Soviets during the Cold War, for example. Eventually the Russian and Eastern European people themselves got sick of the Soviets and ousted them. Free markets and free trade are not always lovey-dovey, but at least we don't try to make entire nations present their rumps. Unless you think saying "stop torture, stop violating civil rights, stop genocide" is somehow morally wrong?