Tuesday, January 23, 2007
War on Terror - Diplomacy
I read this some time ago.
It factually contradicts the belief that we're not negotiating in the Middle East...
It factually contradicts the belief that we're not negotiating in the Middle East...
In the Wall Street Opinion Journal, Joel Himmelfarb wrote:
"the notion that the Bush administration's refusal to talk with Iran and Syria is the reason for our inability to stabilize Iraq.The author concludes:
The premise--pushed by Democratic politicians and others--is absolutely false. The people pushing this, among them Jimmy Carter and Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Sen. Chuck Hagel, seem intent on sandbagging President Bush into negotiating from a position of weakness over some form of 'grand bargain' with some of our most deadly enemies. But the fact is that plenty of engagement has already been taking place."
The record, from Carter to Bush II, strongly suggests that neither regime has any interest in cooperating with us in Iraq, and are more likely than not to view the Carter-Brzezinski-Hagel approach as a demonstration of American weakness.
