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Will the Bush administration listen to 21 Generals who in an open letter say the US governemnts aggressive policy in the Middle East is not working?
Iran is willing to talk to the US, but Bush refuses to talk. He won't talk and he won't listen. How can Bush or America "win" by a policy of refusing to talk? The Chinese talk to Iran. The Russians talk to Iran. Even Britain had, and may still have, diplomatic relations with Iran. What is America hoping to achieve by refusing to talk to Iran?
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21 former generals, diplomats and national security officials will release an open letter tomorrow arguing that the administration's "hard line" has actually undermined U.S. security.
"It's not a crisis," Gard said in a telephone interview. "To call the Iranian situation a 'crisis' connotes you have to do something right now, like bomb them."
He noted that Iran had sought to open negotiations with the U.S. through Swiss intermediaries, efforts that the letter-signers said were worth exploring as a means of defusing tensions in the region.
But Gard said the administration appeared to be going in the opposite direction, adding that he was particularly concerned by recent warnings from former Israeli military officials that a strike against Iran may be needed to disable that country's nuclear program.
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08-17-2006 11:05 AM
