Middle Eastern “dialogue”…The truth is off to the side, part of another taxonomy of discourse; the purpose of “dialogue” is to keep it there.
And inside the Islamic view of the world, any formal agreements with the enemy can be viewed as pragmatic, temporary, non binding. (thus Iran pursues a nuclear weapon with impunity, despite being a signatory to the nuclear ban treaty.) While taqiyaa (lying to the infidel) is an approved method of negotiating with the enemy in Islam.
So while we occupy ourselves self-righteously expounding politically correct views on the detainment of prisoners at Guantanamo (and our President decides to abolish the term “enemy combatant”) or while we are offering the Constitutional right of habeas corpus to individuals who don’t know a habeas from a corpus and while we are delicately inveighing against rendition and “torture”, those individuals who consider us Satan and would gleefully slaughter us given the slightest opportunity…have got to be terribly amused and, even, heartened at their potential for success against such a stupid enemy.
Instead, our fate is now in the hands of one-dimensional, small men and women without vision, knowledge of history, or the courage to act, except insofar as they are prospecting for votes.
Yes, and many purporting to keep us informed in “the news” (aka journalists) suffer the same limitations.
