Posted on 03/14/2009 11:31:40 PM PDT by Nachum
A top economic adviser to US President Barack Obama, along with nine former senior officials, is calling on the American leader to launch a dialogue with Hamas, the The Boston Globe reported Saturday.
SLIDESHOW: Israel & Region | World According to the report, Paul A. Volcker and other members of the bipartisan group - including former national security advisers Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski - have sent a letter to Obama urging him to engage Hamas in order to coax the terrorist organization to disarm and join a peaceful Palestinian unity government.
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Yeah Jonny, you first...
The List, ping
Teleprompter to 0bama: talk to Hamas.
Cart to horse: go this way.
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Every current and former US Official pushing this should be immediately put under investigation for money laundering and the LOBBYING DISCLOSURE ACT.
Agreed. The amount of corruption is obvious.
Sure! That's the ticket. Why didn't we think of this before..
I don’t see why not, negotiating with terrorists has always worked in the past.
This will be the first step to signing a treaty known as "TAFTA", the Terrorist Allied Free Trade Act, so that Obama can send Hamas a stimulus check to boost that economy as well.
Follow the money. This is horrendous advice by advisors with bad advice. World terrorism must be defeated soundly by all means possible. Negotiation and talking have never gotten anywhere, none, nada, with any of the groups calling themselves “Palestinians.” Netanyahu naively gave away the store under the Oslo Accords and received in return more terrorism than ever. Let’s hope he learned his lesson and will be more realistic and sticks to what he knows: that there is no negotiating with terrorists. The Palestinian Authority is every bit as much a terrorist group as Hamas, Hezbollah, and Fatah.
The so-called academic intellectual, Brzezinski was in bed with terrorists his whole adult life, a flaming apologist for terrorists going back forty years. Facts should have discredited Brzezinski long ago, but the NY Times always loved him. Obama is bringing back the worst that ever was in U.S. foreign policy advising. His ilk find fault only with the U.S. Follow the money.
As a lead in to the discussions, why not mention how Barry Soetoro converted from Islam to Christianity? You know, sort of a conversation starter. Just to get the ball rolling.
Naivete...thy name is Obama.
First we’re going to make friends w/Cuba and Russia, and on that news they’re talking of placing bombers in Cuba.
Then we’re going to talk to Iran and the moderate Taleban, LOL.
And now we need a dialogue with Hamas.
Unbelievable!
Brent “New Communist World Order” Scowcroft and Zbigniew “I Surrender” Brzezinski, two of the biggest jackasses to ever infest DC.
He did? What proof do you have of that conversion: baptism certificate, statements, etc?
Translation...
The world knows our presentident is weak and has not the will to stand up and tell others what we expcect in terms of behavior that is condusive to keeping the peace as we see it.
That’s all the goons on the other side of the Atlantic and/or Pacific understans so show them....
I’m no tough guy, but man, you have to have the intestinal fortitude to at least represent that you have at least a straight flush when the other guy has four of a kind already...It’s not about actual action, it’s about the will to do what the other guy won’t. You show that, you keep the peace, period.
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