secretary of defense Gates: U.S. Should Engage Iran With Incentives, Pressure

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how hypocritical can they get? or just how fucking stupid is bu$h*? or is robert gates like the nazi appeasers too?


The United States should construct a combination of incentives and pressure to engage Iran, and may have missed earlier opportunities to begin a useful dialogue with Tehran, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said yesterday.

"We need to figure out a way to develop some leverage . . . and then sit down and talk with them," Gates said. "If there is going to be a discussion, then they need something, too. We can't go to a discussion and be completely the demander, with them not feeling that they need anything from us."

In the meantime, Gates told a meeting of the Academy of American Diplomacy, a group of retired diplomats, "my personal view would be we ought to look for ways outside of government to open up the channels and get more of a flow of people back and forth." Noting that "a fair number" of Iranians regularly visit the United States, he said, "We ought to increase the flow the other way . . . of Americans" visiting Iran.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/14/AR2008051403553_pf.html

[Vickers]

1. This sets up the attack down the road.

"See? We tried to talk with them, but they JUST WOULDN'T LISTEN!!!"

[HCE SuiGeneris]

2. Pouty lil Preznit Boy too dumb to engage in dialog,

and all his speech writers have retired. Gauging from today's spew, Feith is now penning the diatribe.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. So does that make Gates an 'appeaser'?