Posted on 11/29/2006 8:11:27 AM PST by nuconvert
Absolutely not and not on any single issue. Right now the negotiation with Iran should be two to three weeks of intensive Air Campaign to destroy their nuclear facilities, military infrastructures, command and control centers, and their leadership.
Yup, we *should* hold direct talks with Iran and Syria.
Just like we held direct talks with Tojo and HItler.
I suggest something like tennis. We'll launch the first volley... Anyone willing to bet against an ace? ;-P
We could let the missles do the talking.
Sure direct talks, Just send in Nevel.
Sure ... right after we bomb their nuke site into oblivion
Our only hope now would be to use the Holy Hand-Grenade of Antioch.
I know it wont work but it a better idea than anyone else has offered.
"On October 23, 1983, around 6:20 am, a yellow Mercedes-Benz delivery truck drove to Beirut International Airport, where the 1st Battalion 8th Marines, under the U.S. 2nd Marine Division of the United States Marines, had set up its local headquarters. The truck turned onto an access road leading to the Marines' compound and circled a parking lot. The driver then accelerated and crashed through a barbed wire fence around the parking lot, passed between two sentry posts, crashed through a gate and barreled into the lobby of the Marine headquarters. The Marine sentries at the gate were forbidden from using live ammunition, for fear that a discharge might kill a civilian, so they were powerless to stop him. According to one Marine survivor, the driver was smiling as he sped past him.
The suicide bomber detonated his explosives, which were equivalent to 12,000 pounds (about 5,400kg) of TNT. The force of the explosion collapsed the four-story cinder-block building into rubble, crushing many inside."
"The death toll was 241 American servicemen: 220 Marines, 18 Navy personnel and 3 Army soldiers. Sixty Americans were injured. In the attack on the French barracks, 58 paratroopers were killed and 15 injured. In addition, the elderly Lebanese custodian of the Marines' building was killed in the first blast. [1] The wife and four children of a Lebanese janitor at the French building also were killed.[2]"
"In May 2003, in a case brought by the families of the 241 U.S. Marines who were killed, U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth declared that the Islamic Republic of Iran was responsible for the 1983 attack. Lamberth concluded that Hezbollah was formed under the auspices of the Iranian government, was completely reliant on Iran in 1983 and assisted Iranian Ministry of Information and Security agents in carrying out the operation."
http://www.answers.com/topic/1983-beirut-barracks-bombing
You tell me if we should talk with the government that kills US Marines, sailors, and soldiers.
We do not negotiate with terrorist regimes. Period.
Iran WANTS a destabilized Iraq. It fits into their plans to create chaos in order to usher in the 13th prophet or some such. How could they EVER be convinced to reduce assistance to terrorists in Iraq?
If this truly is Baker's plan, it is the most ignorantly short-sighted plan imaginable.
I don't know what the Ezekiel option is, but in my opinion, Puting figures very big in the reasons that we should not bother to try to negotiate with Iran.
It's too late, Putin already has finished negotiations with Iran, and the Cold war has been raging without us, just like the Islamic war against the US under Clinton.
Might just get him to shut up and do something productive, for all we know.
Sure. Let's hold direct talks with Iran. Let's send John Bolton over there to explain to them that any continued assistance provided to the insurgency in Iraq will be considered an act of war and will be dealt with accordingly.
I think that the murder of Gemayel in Lebanon complicated the original planned proposal of the Iraq Study Group.
"Okay, mister Middle-East Diplomacy, what would you do in Iraq?"
Annex it
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