Comments on: Carter Agrees to Hold Talks With Khatami

By: LJD

LJD — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:11:51 +0000

Oops! Should read:

Carter Agrees ~~to Hold Talks~~ With Khatami

By: LJD

LJD — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:11:09 +0000

Carter ~~agrees to hold talks~~ with Khatami.

By: Jim Henley

Jim Henley — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:07:55 +0000

Whatever happened to it, anyway? Ooh, I'll take "Reaped the whirlwind of decades' helping SAVAK torture Iranians" since nobody else has! That makes me a fringe character accusing the US of suffering in the Middle East because it preferred stability over freedom and got neither, I realize. Just like Condi Rice.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 02:22:54 +0000

Bombing them only worsens the situation. Remember Iraq?

Yes. Do you?

Dialog is the only way we can get them to stop their plans.

Right. And when a rabid dog is menacing your loved ones, do you tell it, "Sit! Stay!"...?

By: clearwaterconservative

clearwaterconservative — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:37:40 +0000

At least someone is talking to them. Dialog is the only way we can get them to stop their plans.

Bombing them only worsens the situation. Remember Iraq?

By: Old War Dogs

Old War Dogs — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:05:57 +0000

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By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:25:27 +0000

Ideally, we’d hold these talks in our embassy in Teheran. Whatever happened to it, anyway?

Now that is just mean! Heh.

By: just me

just me — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:17:15 +0000

I am hoping the WH says thanks but no thanks, given his track record with the Arafat and N Korea.

By: Zelsdorf Ragshaft III

Zelsdorf Ragshaft III — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:17:12 +0000

I wonder if Khatami is bearing gifts for Carter. Had Carter been worth a tinkers damn, Khatami would never have been president of Iran. Very few modern Presidents have been weak in both domestic and foreign policy. Carter is the exception. He failed miserably at both. He won an election, but did not know how to govern.

By: madmatt

madmatt — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:08:48 +0000

At least some people think that actually talking with people, rather than demanding they prove a negative, is better than another pointless war based on no evidence. We know the current administration loves all war all the time, why should they be trusted in a search for peace!

By: Anderson

Anderson — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:35:43 +0000

Rather Christian of him, though very unlikely to be much benefit. If this adminstration were the sort to turn this to its advantage, it would be holding its own talks.