Gerecht (AEI): let’s pretend to talk to Iran, then bomb

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/20/gerecht-lets-pretend-to-talk-to-iran-then-bomb/

Gerecht: let’s pretend to talk to Iran, then bomb.

In this morning’s New York Times, Reuel Marc Gerecht, a fellow at the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute, advocates talking to the Iranian regime, but only as a way of establishing a pretext for American military action:

The best reason to offer to begin talks with Tehran is that the regime will almost certainly refuse any offer to normalize relations. <…>

If the mullahs don’t want to negotiate, fine: making the offer is something that must be checked off before the next president could unleash the Air Force and the Navy.

[thereismore]

1. That's completely backwards. Bomb first, then talk.

:sarcasm:

[Hydra]

2. So we send them a list of demands a mile long

and we bomb them if they don't comply? How so like a Neocon.

"We think of laws as lines we need to move now and then so we don't look like we are crossing them."

[On the Road]

3. What Else is New?

That's been US policy for the last century or more.

[berni_mccoy]

4. Just like Japan Did before Peal Harbor.

[blues90]

5. didn't bush say

Iran needs to prove they haulted all nuclear work before he would talk ? This is the problem , they will never be offered a chance to show proof because they will never be believed .