posted in todays opinion section of my local paper the Staten Island Advance and re-typed word for word.
Seems like Obama has a point don't you agree?
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Should the United States have discussions with Iran ? If so, is this "appeasement" ? According to Webster's New World College Dictioonary, 4th Edition. Its definition of "appeasement" is as follows:

"The policy of giving in to the demands of a hostile or aggressive power in an attempt to keep peace"

Having a discussion with Iran is, according to Webster's, not appeasement. The United States has, during the past 200-plus years, had relations with nations that were autocratic and barbaric. Some examples:

1- Our countryhad diplomatic relations for over 100 years with Czarist Russia, and history has shown that the czars were extremem autocrats.

2- The United States had diplomatic relations with Hitler's Nazi Germany. There's no need to comment about the over 12 million deaths caused by the Nazis.

3- The United States had relations with the USSR [ 1933-1991] an autocratic country responsible for the deaths of over 50 million people.

4- Our country has had relations with Communist china under mao, was responsible for the deaths of nearly 100 million people.

Thomas Jefferson believed the United States should have diplomatic relations with every nation--no matter what type of government controlled a nation. Jefferson was right because ignoring a nation is fruitless. Our country has had diplomatic relations with the czars of Russia, Hitler, Stalin, and mao, who murdered millions. If we dealt with these murderers, then we can talk to the Iranians.

Finally, if the Iranians use nuclear weapons on Israel, the United States can rspond in a manner that would make the Iranians take notice.

john F. Kennedy summed it up this way: 'We should never negotiate out of fear, but we should never fear to negotiate" Any questions ?

Louis A. Carrubba
Staten Island.

You are right Kennedy wasn't around to negotiate to get us out of the war he started.

We were sold out then and we will be sold out again.

good post.

But i must add how do you appease the religon who caused more death in your home state since Pearl Harbor?