Isn’t it obvious that diplomacy won’t work with Iran, especially while Ahmadinejad is in office?
There’s a thing called the Israeli Air Force......I wonder if people have ever heard of it....
I don’t know what to call what we’ve been doing thus far with Iran other than diplomacy. Just because Bush hasn’t had a photo-op with Ahmad doesn’t mean we haven’t been engaging them diplomatically. What does Obama think we’ll profit by having a face-to-face. Will Ahmad look us in the eyes and realize we have only his best interests at heart?
This reminds me of the famous “hotline” between Washington and Moscow. Anyone who thinks being able to talk to the commies directly prevented misunderstandings and saved the world from calamity is a moron. The hotline was a show-piece. The U.S. and the Soviets understood eachother through overt actions.
There are still far too many people who operate under the “Sarajevo Fallacy,” or the notion that nations go to war because they just don’t get eachother. Not so. We get Iran, only too well.