Talk To Our Enemies?

[FC]

From Investors Business Daily

 

(By the way, from what I've heard, it is nearly proven that Iran is manufacturing IED's and distributing them for use against our boys in Iraq)

 

Talk To Our Foes?

 

 

 

Iraq: With a blue-ribbon panel’s recommendations due any day, the U.S. appears to be edging closer to talking to Iran about our getting out of Iraq. We’ve been down this road before, so we ought to know better.

 

 

 

 

Enlightened souls such as Jimmy Carter and Colin Powell, who think it’s a good idea to consult with Iran and Syria on our disengagement from Iraq, call themselves “realists.” Likewise, they’ve relabeled the conflict — which is really part of a world war over the future of our civilization — a “civil war.” They’re wrong on both counts.

Rather than realistic, they’re deluded if they think that talking to your enemies is preferable to opposing them, either diplomatically or militarily. You’d think they’d have learned that by now.

In 1938, Britain’s Neville Chamberlain talked with Adolf Hitler and came away believing “peace in our time” was at hand.

What he really did was appease a murderer, who went on to satisfy his nation’s desire for lebensraum in Europe by annexing Austria, carving up Czechoslovakia, raping Poland and murdering millions of Jews and other “undesirables.”

He gave us fair warning. Hitler quite clearly enunciated his plans for Europe, including ridding Germany and Europe of Jews. Gosh, he even wrote a book about it. If only we had listened.

Our experience in Vietnam was similar. After the Paris Peace Talks ended in 1973, President Nixon trumpeted “peace with honor.” Sound familiar? North Vietnam’s communists were going to peacefully reunite the country, hold free and fair elections, repatriate U.S. prisoners and return the remains of dead U.S. soldiers.

But they were communists, and none of their promises was kept. Instead, the reconquest of South Vietnam by the North led to mass slaughter and imprisonment. Millions perished.

In neighboring Cambodia, America’s exit emboldened the Khmer Rouge to go on a killing spree of its own — a binge that in sheer scope, ruthlessness and cold-blooded insanity stands as one of the great crimes of the 20th century.

This is what we got from “talking to the enemy” in the past. And each time, it came courtesy of our friends the “realists.” Today, Iran poses as big a threat as Hitler or North Vietnam.

As ABC News noted last week, our military now has proof — in the form of captured weapons and munitions freshly made in Iran — that Iran has been aiding the terrorists in Iraq.

Iran’s support for other terrorists — including al-Qaida, Hamas and Hezbollah — has likewise been proved beyond any doubt. Iran is also building a nuclear weapon — a goal, according to U.S. military estimates, that might be realized in only a couple of years.

Realists and others who scoffed at Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s awkward “letter to America” last week might want to reconsider. Such entreaties to the infidel to turn from “injustice” and get right with Allah are regarded by fundamentalist Muslims as fair warning of an impending attack.

Ahmadinejad & Co. no doubt think they have us on the run. And why not? They’ve been offered all kinds of incentives to end their nuclear weapons program, and they’ve just laughed in our faces. The U.N. won’t act, and Europe fears its own Muslim citizens.

That, as usual, leaves the U.S., where a newly elected Congress plans a parade of hearings on American defense and intelligence “failures,” even as the war goes on.

As such, Iran will see the proposal by the Iran Study Group to talk for what it is — a sign of weakness. And after reading headlines like this in the New York Times — “15 Brigades Would Gradually Stand Down Under Plan” — Iran might be right.

On Wednesday, ISG co-Chairmen James Baker and Lee Hamilton — like Carter and Powell, both are Mideast “realists” — will formally release their report on what to do in Iraq.

From everything we’ve seen, it will amount to little more than cutand-run lite. President Bush, however, has signaled he won’t walk away from Iraq. Let’s hope he means it.

[karlunity]

Most of Iran is Shiite as is most of Iraq and they want us gone.

The Saudis are Sunni and I would not be surprised to find them giving aid to the Sunnis of Iraq.

They have hated each other since 600 A.D.

So what we have is a power struggle between two branches of Islam and an Arab vs. Persian conflict and they have hated each other since 500 B.C.

 

Than, of course, there is Saddam and his supporters, I am sure that he is still pulling strings, rather like a mob boss giving orders from the pen, we should have dropped a frag on his head.

 

I hope we win, but with the PC types and Liberals now in Congress, I fear to turn on the TV and see helicopters on the roof...

 

This is only one battle in a long war.

 

Karl

[TYRVR]

IF.........our pulling miltary forces from the middle east would insure a war between Iran and Saudi Arabia....to be fought in Iraq........PACK'EM UP AND BRING'EM HOME!

If the crazy-ass fundamentalist are busy killing each other.....it will be so much easier to exterminate the winners!

Islam is the type of religion that fosters and trains fanaticism.......peace will be found only when the Muslims are deprived of the power that oil has given them.......or the life is blasted from them. To believe otherwise is folly.

[karlunity]

IF.........our pulling miltary forces from the middle east would insure a war between Iran and Saudi Arabia....to be fought in Iraq........PACK'EM UP AND BRING'EM HOME!

If the crazy-ass fundamentalist are busy killing each other.....it will be so much easier to exterminate the winners!

 

TYRVR.

 

 

Sir, It is a pleasure to read this.

I had not seen the bright side . : )

 

Karl