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It would seem to me that negotiating becomes even more important when the potential partner wants to destroy you, especially when there's considerable evidence that he might actually be able to do it. That's why even Saint Reagan sat down with the Soviets, and why we don't talk publicly about surgical strikes on Beijing.
Considering what a bunch of people with box-cutters managed to do to our national economy, and to our strategic position in the world, even the dullest of our geopoliticians are now beginning to realize that we are facing defeat. It's amazing really...Osama bin Laden or Hassan Nasrallah put a pebble on the edge of a cliff, and our elephant obligingly trips itself up and topples over the edge.
There is a balance of power, and negotiations are the only thing which might stabilize it.
