Shilling for Israel

Bad, bad Jihadi! They are irrational, you cannot bargain with them! Thus goes the cry time and again across the punditsphere and out of the whitehouse. "We are at war with Islamic Fascists!" declared the President on a recent flyout at Green Bay. Well, so it is. And so what? Are we to think that you cannot negotiate with these people? That they are not even human? That their interests are nil, that "they" have no rational bargaining position, that diplomacy won't work, that the only thing "they" need to do is, as William Kristol has said, what is expected of them (that is, what we want of them--whatever that is). Enough of this. Enough of our bullying asshole behavior. If the President can't even meet Ahminedjad face to face, can't even meet with Nasrallah, can't even meet with Syriah, can't even have the humility and good will to at least sit down and listen with sincerity to them, what can we expect? Thats right, more war, more "suiciders", etc. Now is the time for diplomacy, for listening, for taking in their concerns with sincerity and with good will. Thats the only way this will get turned around. Holing up in the Whitehouse, the president makes of himself and our country the appearance of a petty little overindulged dandy afraid to get his hands dirty. What price will we pay, shilling for Israel?