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[rasputin1952]

It always amazes me that people like this discuss relevant issues w/such disdain.

I know this beating a dead horse, but if we don't let dialog enter this situation, we are going to fail.
As much as I hate to say this, displays of power and dialog are what some cultures understand. You have to talk, but you've also got to show you're ready to back up what you say. Both are necessary, and at the same time, if progress is going to be made.

Israel survives because it's neighbors understand that Israel will back up what is says w/the military if necessary. The approach we've taken w/the ME, is that we either just want to talk, or we start some horror like Iraq. We didn't back up the rhetoric about bin-Laden, we lost a lot of credibility right there. When the Marine barracks went up in Beirut, Reagan scooted, it showed that we were not willing to back up what we were saying, and set the stage for future attacks.

Cheney and Limbaugh have their opinions, wrong ones IMO, but they lack both knowledge of the military and of diplomacy. They are jerks that have air time when it pleases them, and they have no knowledge of how anything works, except how to make a profit from the misery of others.