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So if I may rephrase, you are asking if I believe the US should act as World Policeman? I would need to attack that question on a case-by-case basis. I was not trying to make that point - my point was that Iran's treatment of various groups of people among its own populace was evidence that convinces me I am not ready to endorse greeting them as friends (speaking governmentally here, you understand, not meaning to paint all Iranian citizens with the same brush).-- tommy1733
It's not necessary to treat them as friends. What's necessary is to talk to them and determine mutual interests geopolitically and go from there.
After all, we lived with the USSR's thousands of nukes aimed at us for how many years? Yet.....we still talked to them and made the most of what relations we had with them.
Come to think of it, there's another country that could start doing that also.
