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Rice Offers Iran Prospect of Normal Ties
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| 01/23/08
| Sue Pleming
Posted on 01/23/2008 10:24:23 AM PST by cowdog77
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To: rjp2005
Less than a year left in office. This won’t amount to anything lasting.
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posted on
01/23/2008 10:56:44 AM PST
by
weegee
(Those who surrender personal liberty to lower global temperatures will receive neither.)
To: cowdog77
new world order i guess, condi.
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posted on
01/23/2008 11:03:39 AM PST
by
sappy
To: cowdog77
This is simply a reiteration of our current and only public policy.
It was prompted by the recent butt whooping that the real power in Iran gave to president Amanutjob.
It will likely be ignored by Iran's High Council, but the true audience was the Iranian people.
IMO, this is a good policy.
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posted on
01/23/2008 11:06:34 AM PST
by
Cold Heat
(Mitt....2008)
To: cowdog77
Diplomats always believe everything can be resolved through negotiations: meetings, meetings, more meeting, a press statement, and still more meetings. For the State Department mind, there is no difference between inertia and resolution. Fanatics taking action to bring about the things that they say and believe is just too crude and unwashed. Besides, they never get invited to Davos to sit on a self-important panel to discuss important global events.
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posted on
01/23/2008 11:08:10 AM PST
by
mojito
To: mojito
Diplomats always believe everything can be resolved through negotiations: meetings, meetings, more meeting, a press statement, and still more meetings. For the State Department mind, there is no difference between inertia and resolution. Fanatics taking action to bring about the things that they say and believe is just too crude and unwashed...Ping to wisdom. Well said mojito!
To: mojito
You’re entirely too cynical, Mojito. Just look at all the successes Secretary Rice has had at, ah...well...
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posted on
01/23/2008 11:15:04 AM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
To: cowdog77
"Rice Offers Iran Prospect of Normal Ties"
yeah, ok, that would be ok for the Iranians, but we should be sticking with using
since it's much less likely we could get strangled with a clip on!
To: cowdog77
“Rice said this new relationship could be defined not by fear and mistrust but growing cooperation, expanding trade and exchange, and the peaceful resolution of differences.”
Would the Iranians and their proxies stop killing/helping to kill our soliders in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East? You should add it to your daydream list, Condi.
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posted on
01/23/2008 11:18:26 AM PST
by
Cecily
To: cowdog77
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posted on
01/23/2008 11:19:28 AM PST
by
Blogatron
(Taste napalm and die!)
To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
“Diplomats always believe everything can be resolved through negotiations: meetings, meetings, more meeting, a press statement, and still more meetings. For the State Department mind, there is no difference between inertia and resolution.”
Don’t forget the boondoggles, summits, conferences, and fact-finding junkets. Those accomplish a lot (of nothing) too.
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posted on
01/23/2008 11:20:28 AM PST
by
Cecily
To: cowdog77
Maybe she can play the piano for them.
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posted on
01/23/2008 11:24:37 AM PST
by
dainbramaged
(the tree of liberty needs watering)
To: cowdog77
Pres Bush already yelled this across the Persian Gulf a couple weeks ago. The USA is the best friend they could ever have. All they have to do is stop the silliness.
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posted on
01/23/2008 11:28:06 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: cowdog77
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posted on
01/23/2008 11:28:41 AM PST
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: cowdog77
Rice Offers Iran Prospect of Normal Ties.
Iran is a theocracy, its goals,objectives driven first and foremost by their religious convictions which obligates them to be in a perpetual state of war with infidels, without accommodation.
If the administration is using this simply as a tactic to demonstrate its willingness to resolve the coming global Iranian immolation diplomatically that's understandable. Otherwise, to the megalomaniac minds of
the Iranians it simply resonates with palpable weakness that the US, the world does not possess the wherewithal to stop the them.
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posted on
01/23/2008 11:29:40 AM PST
by
america4vr
(The ebb and flow of empires have come and gone but America shall forever reign supreme.)
To: cowdog77
Earth to Rice - they don't want "normal ties". They want 20 nuclear weapons a year and Russian patronage. And no, you are not "holding" anybody to "international obligations", you are just making the US an international laughingstock.
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posted on
01/23/2008 11:36:21 AM PST
by
JasonC
To: Ann Archy
A diplomatic opening to Iran is good. Do you want to kill them instead?
I want to WIN against Iran, but if you can win by getting the Mullahs to look at the China route and change them economically, that eliminates the post-war rebuilding effort as well as the war itself(and terroristm attacks from Iran’s people here in the US.. and they will try!) the whole world wins.
With Iraq there now, the foundation for Iran to change helps us there and in Afghanistan.. and Syria. If we can win against Iran this way, it kills terrorism at it’s root.
To: Count of Monte Logan
“A diplomatic opening to Iran is good.”
Neville Chamberlain thought he had Hitler squared away too. Diplomacy doesn’t work with irrational mad dogs, as we are probably going to find out the hard way eventually with Iran. We never seem to learn.
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posted on
01/23/2008 12:03:11 PM PST
by
Cecily
To: cowdog77
I just really can’t wait till these people are out of office.
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posted on
01/23/2008 12:13:02 PM PST
by
demshateGod
(the GOP is dead to me)
To: cowdog77
I’d agree if she offered it to Iranian citizens that are hungry for a new govt.
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posted on
01/23/2008 12:25:36 PM PST
by
tpanther
To: weegee
It's really sad that, as far as foreign policy goes, the ATFE, amnesty, etc., etc., I'm counting the days until Jorge is out.
Bush has zero control over any of the bureaucracies, and it's getting harder and harder to tell the difference between him and the Rats on a lot of issues.
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posted on
01/23/2008 1:39:06 PM PST
by
pierrem15
(Charles Martel: past and future of France)
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