I have a theory as to why there is no progress in the middle east, despite President Obama’s commitment to going to the negotiating table with the region’s leaders without precondition. Up till now, I have only known of two gross approaches, the proponents of each claiming their course to be diametrically opposed to the other. One, that the Arab fascists only understand the barrel end of a gun, only from a show of strength will they respect us. The other, of course they hate us when we continually attempt to bully them with the threat of more barrels of guns, we can only prevail by compromising our ideals to avoid pressuring them to compromise theirs. We have a long history of leaning toward the first. Recently, our new President chastised us for being so naive in doing so and promised to sit down with Ahmadinejad et. al. without precondition in pursuit of the latter.
