negotiating with terrorists
Posted at 1:39pm on May 13, 2008 When Obama Negotiates With Terrorists
he'll do everything the UN does - nothing
By haystack
[Image courtesy Cartoon Stock ]
Barack Obama promises he will talk to everyone - friend and foe alike. He's convinced himself our unwillingness to do so under the "Bush-Cheney" approach makes us look arrogant, [and] it denies us opportunities to make progress, and it makes it harder for America to rally international support for our leadership."
Of course, we DO talk to all nations (friend and foe alike), we just don't sit down and make nice with them - we tell them to behave themselves and take care of their people with decency and the human dignity they deserve...and until they do, we're not going to do them any favors (or give them any cash handouts). Obama doesn't seem to GET that part of it, but this fact goes hand in hand with all the other things he doesn't "get" about Foreign Policy.
Obama wants to sit down with a country that considers one of our allies a stinking corpse doomed to disappear at the hands of another country currently run by the armed thug terrorists that recently endorsed his candidacy themselves. Of course, Obama "understands" why the terrorists running Palestine would endorse him...and why wouldn't they? These are the same lunatics who suggest that his Muslim-world dwell-time, his Muslim-like middle name, and his "worldly appearance" might preclude his using the "cowboy diplomacy" that has thus far enabled Israel to continue its existence despite continued Muslim efforts to the contrary. Why wouldn't they endorse him assuming they'll get away with a whole lot more evil-doing when the "why can't we all just get along" President takes over?
More below the fold...
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Posted at 10:01am on Apr. 23, 2008 Jimmy Carter: Ideal SecState For The "New" Democrat [Updated and bumped]
By haystack
[image courtesy Salon (note: check the accompanying b-slap from last year of the former President by Bill Maher of all people in the accompanying article-it's a whopper!)]
Update:
Breibart is channeling ol' haystack this morning, informing us that the "Carter-Hamas meeting achieved nothing."
Funny, I think I suggested as much 24 hours prior...seems the Palestinians who WANT to find a peaceful solution and live agree with my analysis:
Last week's meeting between former US president Jimmy Carter and the exiled leader of Hamas militants did not produce any results, Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Malki said here Wednesday.
"President Carter came to the region thinking he could achieve something. Unfortunately president Carter left without anything concrete," he told a conference in the Spanish capital.
"The only thing he achieved was permission on the part of Khaled Meshaal of Hamas to deliver a letter from a detained Israeli soldier to his family. Nothing else," he said.
"Hamas offered nothing to president Carter. They reiterated the same positions. There was no change on the part of Hamas," Malki added.
Yeah, Jimmy-we know-they were duly elected and therefore they must be respected. We know we're not supposed to convolute that with whether blowing themselves and their neighbors up to actually GET those votes ever really had anything to do with it.
My original post in full, below the fold...
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