Muscatine

Okie dokie joe, your hired! You and dave head on over there. If we dont hear from you in a week we'll assume your negotiations have failed.

You both believe you have all the answers this should be simple to do.

But i do have a question for your far superior  intellect. How do you negotiate with a suicide bomber or someone who hijacks a plane with a single goal of killing thousands of people by running it into a building. One must think unless you kill thousands of your own people you wouldnt have anything to bargain with. Even then it wouldnt work because the end result would rack up even more casualties.

So my inferior intellect, or some common sense says your wrong. But i'm still willing to buy you and dave airline tickets to try out your theory.

GTA....This is, of course, the same mentality employed by those U.S. offcials who were attempting to negotiate with Japan as Pearl Harbor was being bombed.  I'll never understand it.

And my point is that you CAN NOT negotiate with these clowns. These people want nothing more than to see americans die. So there is nothing to negotiate with, there are no bargaining chips. They want americans dead not money, not land nothing but death.

Thats why when joe talked about options such as negotiations in his example it was ascinine.

My response to him was sarcastic. Im a realist and realistically you cant negotiate with someone who has the single goal of taking lives.

GTA....I apologize for not making myself clear.  I'm with you on this.  I don't understand the "negotiation first" mentality.