Oh for the love of god....
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2895402babylonsister (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-20-08 01:10 PM
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Gerecht (AEI): let’s pretend to talk to Iran, then bomb
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Gerecht: let’s pretend to talk to Iran, then bomb.
In this morning’s New York Times, Reuel Marc Gerecht, a fellow at the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute, advocates talking to the Iranian regime, but only as a way of establishing a pretext for American military action:
The best reason to offer to begin talks with Tehran is that the regime will almost certainly refuse any offer to normalize relations. <…>
If the mullahs don’t want to negotiate, fine: making the offer is something that must be checked off before the next president could unleash the Air Force and the Navy
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thereismore (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-20-08 01:12 PM
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1. That's completely backwards. Bomb first, then talk.
Hydra (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-20-08 01:14 PM
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2. So we send them a list of demands a mile long
and we bomb them if they don't comply? How so like a Neocon.
"We think of laws as lines we need to move now and then so we don't look like we are crossing them."
ribofunk (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-20-08 01:19 PM
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3. What Else is New?
That's been US policy for the last century or more.
Bunch of damn IDJITS.......................this campfire is just starting to spark