As Buchanan points out in the rest of the column, both the USSR and China were sending in weapons to kill our soldiers in Vietnam, yet we continued to talk to them.
Besides, I'd like to see the proof Iran is doing this. I hope it's a lot better than the "proof" that Saddam had WMDs.
in you rvietnam scenario, you fail to mention that we didn’t bring their leaders over here to forward their agendas to our colleges.
as for proff, we have one of their officers in custody who was caught red handed smugglign weapons. General Patreaus mentioned the Iranian connection in his report to congress.
what more proof do you need?
An American boy in a flag draped box did it for me
Saddam himself proved he had WMDs.
He used them on the Kurds.
You don't know much about that region of the world, nor their belief systems, do you? 12th Imam - Worldwide Arab Caliphate - those mean anything to you? How about the reconsitution of the Persian Empire? Have you spent any time studying the history of these people? Pat Buchanan has not, that's obvious. But, then, he's only for closing our borders and living soley within the confines of those borders. Sorry, but the world doesn't work that way anymore, and I'm not intereted in giving near total control of the world's major oil reserves over to a bunch of Islamo-facists - how about you? Oh, and in case someone brings up the argument again about comparing the current situation with the USSR or China, try and think about the differences between the ideologies of those two countries and the Islamo-facists we're facing today. Not the same mind-sets in any way, shape, or form.
And the alternative to talking to them was... what?
Global Thermonuclear Exchange, mebbee?
You talk to equals. You give orders to unequals...
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