Originally posted by PsychoPawnThen why not invite representatives from Iran and North Korea?
You're digging this up from 2009? Going back into the archives I guess.
Sometimes you have to talk to people who you don't like - it's diplomacy.
Like how GWB made a deal with Qaddafi in order to get them to get rid of their nuclear program.
Originally posted by PsychoPawnThere is, however, a difference between diplomacy and actively supporting a regime.
Sometimes you have to talk to people who you don't like - it's diplomacy.
Oil and secularism (albeit a peculiar sort) have blurred the West's ability to define between the two in Libya.
Originally posted by shavixmirI agree. Metal seemed to only be referring to this incident where she was talking to him.
There is, however, a difference between diplomacy and actively supporting a regime.
Oil and secularism (albeit a peculiar sort) have blurred the West's ability to define between the two in Libya.
I don't know how you see secularism as being an issue though.
Originally posted by PsychoPawnThe US would rather have secularism and a brutal dictator than an Islamic state.
I don't know how you see secularism as being an issue though.
Similarly they prefer brutal capitalist dictators to communism.
Or at least that is what they pretend. In reality they prefer brutal dictators to anything else because that allows the highest amount of corruption and cheap oil.
Originally posted by PsychoPawnUsing a secular (sort of) regime as a buffer against Islamic motivated regimes and groups ... no matter how, uh, dubious the regime is.
I agree. Metal seemed to only be referring to this incident where she was talking to him.
I don't know how you see secularism as being an issue though.