It's About Time - US & Iran hold talks

And, the reason this should create hopefulness would be ...?

 

And just what is the point of these "talks" I might ask? An exercise in futility, for sure. Some people just don't have a clue.

 

Mottaki's dreaming. An admission of failure would be not only wrong, but a gross blow to Americas fighting forces. Of course the liberals would love it.

 

If we have learned anything over the years, it's that troops can not win a war that is waged by politicians.

The initial objective Bush set out to do, overthrow Saddam and allow free elections in Iraq, has been accomplished. Why do they feel the need to keep piling more objectives onto our troops in order to win? The politicians are going to make winning impossible because their final objective will never end.

The troops have done everything asked of them so far. The country is in Iraqi hands now, good or bad. We should let them determine their own course from here on out. If they really want to be free, they will stand up and take hold of the opportunity we have given them. If they do not want freedom, they will lay back and let someone come in and take them and their country. Our staying there another 10 months or 10 years will not change what is ultimately an Iraqi decision, for better or worse.

No one can seriously say the foreign policy has been right, else we would have caught bin Laden by now and the whole region would be stabilized. We're only deceiving ourselves about the foreign policy.

I will say this though, the policy was working in Afghanistan until we turned away from them and focused on Iraq. Now, we're about to lose that country to extremists as well. You can not blow one country to heck, promise to rebuild everything you destroyed, and then turn around and focus all your attention someplace else.

Had we stayed in Afghanistan, completely routed the Taliban and al-Qaeda, captured bin Laden, and rebuilt the infrastructure which we destroyed, that country would be firmly fixed in the "win" column and we'd be home from there by now.

Something has got to change.

 

:laugh: :laugh: Thanks? :laugh: :laugh:

 

If you are looking at this from the viewpoint that Iran is a "potential adversary" then you are coming late into the scenario. And, my concern is that we are negotiating out of fear.

 

==I'm going to go out on a limb here and predict failure.

 

Ain't a limb. With the big mouths both sides have, you're on the tree trunk.

 

Negotiate away.

But remember the history of the mullahs. There is no agreement we can make with them that we can expect them to keep. Ever.

 

Amen! Tis folly to negotiate with liars. It is in Irans best interest to undertake "talks" with us knowing we'll do absolutely nothing militarily while discussing stuff.

 

Okay, fine, then. But answer this question - what leverage does the US have in holding this talk with Iran? What leverage do we have? None. They know we are a toothless tiger and we will do nothing. What does Iran have to gain by these talks? Nothing except PR. Their objective is to destabilize the region (which they are doing, supplying manpower, weapons, and supplies to "insurgents" in Iraq and to Sheik Muqtada al-Sadr - whom we should have taken out when we had the opportunity but whom our clueless CIC decided to pacify and negotiate with so they ordered our troops to stand down and had a cease-fire, remember?) and to eventually envelope and incorporate/absorb the Shiite sections of Iraq into their own country. Perhaps if you studied a little more about their ideology and goals and the history of the region, you wouldn't be so starry eyed over talks with Iran, a bunch of liars and thugs who have oil (a leverage), are developing the nuclear bomb (another iranian leverage), and who have been our "stated" enemy since the Iran hostage crisis. Not to mention funding & supplying Hezbollah, the terrorist group causing a lot of trouble in Lebanon, Africa, and other areas of the Middle East. These so-called talks were just a photo op.

PS: Bombing Mecca would take care a lot of these issues, anyway. I hope that is a back burner option in our war games.

 

The only negotiations that Iran would except is that the US abandon Israel. Which is not going to happen. The whole middle east conflict is based on Israel. So we either allow Israel to be wiped off the face of the earth or we stand toe to toe. There are no other options.

 

Amen, L.E. No troops, this time. Do it right, with extreme prejudice. Ain't enough, enough ?

 

Name one good reason why it is important for them to save face. Is that how politically correct you are, that our stated enemies who desire to blow us and Israel off the map need to "save face?" The murderers who financed the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon need to "save face?" The financiers of attacks on American interests need to "save face?" Those who deny the holocaust need to "save face?" The mullahs who spread hatred towards the US and call us the Great Satan and want to blow us off the map, need to "save face?" And as far as them re-entering the community of nations, they seem to be doing just fine engaging in trade with China and Russia, to name two.

I only wish they would. Someone needs to talk some sense into our leaders. They seem pretty much clueless.

Hey, I'm all for that. Except they won't vote - they will have a big genocide, Shia giving payback to the Sunni for all those years living under Saddam. But, hey, if you can go over there and talk some sense into the people who bite heads off of living frogs and eat beating hearts out of living bunnies and get them to be civilized, more power to you. The one thing we can agree on is that our troops need to be out of there, even though it isn't about to happen, no matter who is in the office of President in the USA.

Well, if there are "many, many" as you say, name 3.