Fred Kaplan in Salon, comments on why we SHOULD negotiate with Iran
First, if Iran cooperates with the talks, then it might suspend its nuclear program in exchange for economic benefits. Second, if Iran doesn't cooperate, then the Bush administration will have made its case to China, Russia, and Europe that the regime is dangerous and untrustworthy. At that point it will be much easier to impose the economic sanctions that will scare the Iranians into better behavior.
Iran is not going to give up on it's national mission nomatter what. I don't know what he bases his opinion on but
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Some great content here guys - Iran needs a damn good slap.They will get it too.Islam greatly underestimates the West.I for one am sick of hearing about a jihad.If these fools keep poking the tiger - they will get clawed.
Hey, if the left had things there way, all that would be needed to take care of all of our problems would be a lot of big hugs. That's the ticket.
The dangerous thing about Fred Kaplan is that he'll believe lies. If Iran pretends to cooperate, the Kaplans of the world will close their eyes to the reality of the situtation and call Bush the threat to peace for not trusting Iran. All along, Iran will continue to build nukes.
Something similar happened with Arafat. The world deluded itself that after the Oslo Accords, Arafat was a new man. But he turned the PA controlled areas into a terrorist training camp where every child was indoctrinated, through the school system, to believe that the highest honor was to be a Shahid (suicide bomber.)
In the years 2000-2004, while Arafat was ordering a wave of suicde bombers to attack Isreal, the world wanted to believe Arafat had nothing to do with it because he said he didn't. Even Bush believed that until Sharon went into Arafat's bunker and got the hard evidence. However, Europe never abandoned their trust for Arafat.
Thus, anyone who says "let's go to the UN" is saying "let them lie and we'll close our eyes." It's the Kaplans of the world (going back to Walter Duranty) that will blind us and get us killed ... just like we were blinded to the threat on 9/11.
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