Lesson 1: talk to your enemies. Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld never learned their first lesson. Condi probably knows, but is not very eager, because she would have to do the talking. Bush refuses to talk to the leaders of his ill-defined ‘axis of evil’ (Kim, Mahmoud and an anonymous insurgent leader, replacing Saddam). Unless they kotow nine times first. The leaders of vassal states only do this to a real emperor, not the ‘Evil One’ in the White House.
Even at the height of the Cold War, the U.S. and Russia were diplomatically talking to each other, without preconditions, because if you set preconditions, you won’t be talking anytime soon.
Some advisers are now advising Bush to talk to his enemies. But he is staying the course, deaf and dumb. The result may very well be another serious miscalculation.
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