"How can you talk about bombing a country when you won't even talk to them?" said Clark. "It's outrageous. We're the United States of America; we don't do that. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the military option is off the table -- but diplomacy is not what Jim Baker says it is. It's not, What will it take for you boys to support us on Iraq? It's sitting down for a couple of days and talking about our families and our hopes, and building relationships."
Yeah! And maybe if our diplomats buy their diplomats a really expensive dinner, they'll put out!
General Clark's form of international diplomacy sounds more like the beginning stages of a relationship between a man and a woman. I hate to be the one to break it to him, but sharing family stories, hopes, and dreams at a negotiating table isn't going to change one very important fact: Part of Iran's hopes and dreams are to develop nuclear weapons with which they can dominate Iraq and a large swath of the Middle East. I'd be interested to know how his personal relationship building changes that fact.
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