All Posts Tagged With: "avoid war"

Bush and McCain say that we can not talk to enemies such as Hamas because they can not be trusted and we would only legitimize them. So how did they convince Qaddafi to give up WMD?

Obama, defensively, says he will never talk to terrorists.

These are both examples of HS (hypocritical version of more well known BS). Some say it is impossible to be a successful presidential candidate or a president without a little HS around to be found or stepped on.

The Bush Admin has already been talking to most of our “enemies” through surrogates which is a time honored technique all administrations have used, when they judge that talking directly might create unintended consequences. Undesirable consequences could include premature release of trade offs being discussed, scaring one side or the other due to adverse publicity and causing negotiations to break down.

Also significantly, the side that has less international standing gets a huge boost in standing (and re-electability) internationally and domestically when “recognized” in direct and open negotiations. Hey, I didn’t invent this stuff.

Barack brags about being the only presidential candidate who is willing to meet with Iran’s leaders without preconditions. That makes him very popular with countries like Iran, who are big supporters of terrorism. But no doubt, the right kind of “negotiations” are pretty important as there are significant issues on the table that will affect our security and ironically time favors the weaker side.

By the way, even though Bush takes credit for Libya giving up WMD, it was really Qaddafi who decided that to continue his pariah status was not in his best interest (he needed Big Oil to come in and exploit his oil resources) and he contacted the Bush Admin with a form of a white flag. It’s actually a win for a multi party policy of not talking.

But who really believes he has no interest or temporarily dormant plans to pursue the power that hideous destructive power confers? If Korea and Syria could build at least an early stage plant in the dessert close to Israel and many US intelligence assers, what could be accomplished in the desert in North Africa?

Some believe it is clearer every day, that it may take the Chief Hypocrite to Channel these difficult conversations (direct and indirect ones) so that he like the other politicos can deny talking with terrorists.

Pst… to both the Obama, McCain campaigns, I can probably conduct these secret, plausibly deniable Channeling Conversations as VP. And no, I would never have sucked up to Hitler, as Channeling finesses the issue.

Check out some of my other little known “interviews” such as my first one with the Big Guy himself, somewhere on this site. BYW, no other VP candidate has these capabilities. And superdelegates from any state but Michigan and Florida can be selected as VP, as long as Howard Dean does not find out.