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2006-01-24 Fifth Column

Academic sez we should negotiate with Binny

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-01-24 00:37|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 WTF is he talking about, Bin Laden will only begin to negotiate a permanent peace with the USA atfer all the citizens convert sharia islamic law...................................................... and I am not converting.

Posted by bgrebel9 2006-01-24 01:12|| 2006-01-24 01:12|| Front Page Top

#2 We should aks him whether he wants to be embalmed in Pig fat or Pig Blood.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2006-01-24 06:52|| 2006-01-24 06:52|| Front Page Top

#3 First of all, the only "truce" Binny offered was in Muslim lands (if we left), not in the US. Seond, in many of the case he cites, the terrorists were the ones who caved (e.g., Libya) thus proving that keeping up the pressure works.
Third, this line of "thought": if we cannot make a deal that is acceptable, President Bush can show the world that bin Laden is a bogus partner, thus undermining his undeniable legitimacy in parts of the Muslim world is a complete load of crap since Muslims would always blame the US for any failure. This idiot should get out into the real world more often.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2006-01-24 08:28|| 2006-01-24 08:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Borer - how apropos...

Posted by Raj 2006-01-24 09:41|| 2006-01-24 09:41|| Front Page Top

#5 This guy teaches at a military staff college?!

Putting aside the strategic and moral issues of a superpower treating with a band of terrorists, his advice is not practical. He does not explain how we will conduct the negotiations. What embassy? What's the agenda? Al Queda objects to our very existence. Few of us, besides the self hating Left, want to negotiate that away.

Historically, when others have negotiated with "terrorists" successfully, it is due the terrorists morphing into a political party like the ANC in South Africa.

Posted by JAB 2006-01-24 10:08|| 2006-01-24 10:08|| Front Page Top

#6 If our goal is to roll back terrorism and reduce its global appeal, sooner or later we are going to have to deal directly with terrorists. Even if such negotiations fail, history has shown that a silver lining is often found.

From my vantage point, it would appear that the vast majority of our successes that have stood the test of time, have come from demanding and then acheiving unconditional surrender...and then extending the olive branch...not the other way around.

Posted by psychohillbilly 2006-01-24 10:36|| 2006-01-24 10:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Israel's tough old soldier Yitzhak Rabin buried the hatchet with Yasser Arafat, and thus engendered a peace process that, despite many fits and starts, has steadily moved toward the creation of an independent and democratic Palestinian state.

Putting aside the idea of an "independent and democratic Palestinian state", what did all that negotiation between Rabin and Arafart do for Israel? Did it result in a permanent solution? Did terrorism stop?

Negotiating with terrorist thugs like bin Laden or Arafart is a fool's errand; their only interest is buying time for themselves and their allies. Negotiating with terrorism only asks for more of it.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2006-01-24 11:24|| 2006-01-24 11:24|| Front Page Top

#8 The Fifth Element:
*BANG*
"Anybody else wanna negotiate?"

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-01-24 13:19|| 2006-01-24 13:19|| Front Page Top

#9 Send Mr. Borer to negotiate. And to show our sincerity, send him with a gift of the bible and talmud.

Posted by ed 2006-01-24 13:32|| 2006-01-24 13:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Doug's just trying out for the WWII Chamberlain Fellowship Award.

Posted by ex-lib 2006-01-24 22:32|| 2006-01-24 22:32|| Front Page Top

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