MORE BULLYING, LESS DIPLOMACY

When it comes down to dealing with rogue nations--or nations we just don't plain like--the status quo of this country has always been: "More bullying; hold the diplomacy mayonnaise and the pickles."

In the last 8 years, we've seen many such examples of our own country reps giving nations hostile to US interests both barrels of 100% True Blue American Bullying. (And it's fat-free!)

Diplomacy? What's that? Is it where we actually have to sit down and talk with these roguish nations or nations we just plainly despise because of a brevity of reasons known only to us, but not to them?

Well...yes.

Talk.

From a historical standpoint, this nation has gotten a lot more done talking to its enemies--rather than bullying or threatening them with force.

I realize that we have no love of Iran for the moment, but talking to them certainly would do more wonders than just desperately wishing to throw missiles and bombs into the heart of their country--with the blind hope that this will work so much better than good old-fashioned diplomacy.

Schuyler Thorpe

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