Posted on 11/08/2006 6:29:08 PM PST by freedomdefender
Robert Gates, 59, the man nominated as the new Defence Secretary, is a former Director of the CIA and a foreign policy pragmatist who strongly supports direct negotiations with Iran.
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Fact: Negotiating with terrorists is a death sentence -- in the long run (and sometimes in the short run).
This is a joke, right?
After listening to the insanity eminating from that corner of the world, do people really think the iranian leadership can be reasoned with? Or even engaged in a civil conversation?
Because I sure don't.
Thanks for the links, was looking for info on Gates. I had not heard the 'negotiate with Iran' stuff...... Bad news indeed. We cannot negotiate with these crazy Islamofacists. Never!
Bad news.
"Pragmatist?" Gross.
It's like that Jesse Jackson character just on FOX (Yes, he's back now that his little friends are in office). He says it's time to build a "meaningful coalition" with other powers to deal with Iraq.
Sure, right, get on it, eh.
Recent poll in Germany revealed 15% of them think Germans are "superior to" other people ~ and not surprisingly, Jesse Jackson is one of their admirers in this business about building meaningful coalitions.
We are doomed.
I wish it was a bad joke.
Apparently it's not.
Frankly, we shouldn't "negotiate" with anyone who wants to kill us.
Period.
This guy sounds like a joke. Bush should have picked a retired general (or even a well-educated Sergeant Major) rather than a career-bearaucrat-turned-college-administrator.
bump
This situation with Rummy stepping down shows weakness to our enemies. \shudder
Ping.
I understand.
Just like the 30's and the rise of the fascists. Nobody wants to face reality until it's too late.
Bad choice to be SecDef. Pres Bush should quit listening to his father and pick his own people. Gates is not the person to be at DoD. Looks like the kumbyya folks are more entrenched then I thought at the White House.
You would expect that after seeing it fail with his father, and his own six years, that this Bush would have learned comity doesn't work with the Washington RATS especially when his first attempt at comity with Ted Kennedy on NCLB has been an abysmal failure that has only gotten him called a liar by his buddy Ted. Nope. He still wants to play nice with the people who hate him. I just don't understand.
I suppose this was foreshadowed by the sudden prominence of James Baker a few weeks ago. Starts coming together now. Doesn't make a bit of sense, but it does come together.
Putting his father's advisors back in power is only going to make a bad situation ten times worse because the RATS are like the Islamofascists—they only understand force. When you make an accommodation with them, you are telling them you're weak. When you smash them in the face, they back off and respect you. Gates is an accommodation.
Pragmatists surrender with less financial cost.
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