Monday, September 7, 2009

America's obsession with dialogue

The Dangers of Dialogue
Iraqi leader Nuri al-Maliki engages Syria in dialogue, huge care bombs follow the next day.That's not how dialogue is supposed to work.


“Iraqi leader Nuri al-Maliki visited Syria on August 18 to discuss the two countries' relationship. He offered Syrian President Bashar Assad a lot of economic goodies in exchange for expelling 271 Iraqi exiles involved in organizing terrorist attacks against their country. Assad refused. Maliki left.”

“The next day, huge bombings struck Ba
ghdad, directly targeting the Foreign and Finance Ministries. More than 100 Iraqis were killed and over 600 were wounded. The Iraqi government blamed the very same exiles living in Syria whom Maliki was trying to get kicked out and implicated the Syrian government directly in the attacks. The two countries recalled their ambassadors; the Iraqis are calling for an international tribunal to investigate.”

What does the Obama administration say? “We consider that an internal matter.”
 

The US Declares its neutrality.


Can there be any doubt whatsoever, that Syria is a brutal regime that sponsors terrorism, and destabilizes the region. To this regime the Obama administration reacts like these are two equals in a petty squabble. One of those 'equals' is Iraq, where the US has shed blood to enable democracy.
Barry Rubin in yesterday Jerusalem Post shows clearly that dialogue doesn’t necessarily pay (recall Neville Chamberlain). 

Here's the background from Mr. Rubin...Mr. Rubin explains the dangers of such a policy of dialogue at any price; read it here...

America's obsession with dialogue

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