Reagan realized he could negotiate with the Soviet Union after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power." Boston Globe

And how long was it before Reagan realized that Gorbachev had no intention of partaking in legitimate negotiations? (When was the Reykjavik summit that Reagan walked out of?)

That's good journalism? Just throw out a statement and let it lie there? Sure, don't bother to elaborate on it when you can't make it turn out the way you want.

And when are liberals going to get over their delusion that is was Gorbachev who voluntarily dismantled the Soviet Union to serve the cause of World Peace?????

Reagan negotiated by walking out, by showing he wasn't afraid to use the red phone, and by not mincing words.

Negotiate is a code word of liberals to give them everything they want

Interesting that the Boston Globe, most probably correctly, notes," including "tens of thousands of civilians dead" in Iraq and Afghanistan," while the treasonable Dennis Kucinich is over there on state run Syrian TV informing the radicals that acutall the US has killed a million Iraqi's.  

If our media had any sense of journalism responsibility, they'd rip Kucinich apart.

And.. I'm still trying to figure out just which of my "civil liberties has been trampled."

To negotiating is best done from a position of strength. I.E., over the stacked up bodies of your enemy, looking at those left with a good site picture.

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

These type of people make it so obviously easy for me sometimes ... most times ... to equate them with movie quotes:

President Thomas Whitmore : What do you want us to do?

Captured Alien : Die. Die.

President Thomas Whitmore : I saw... its thoughts. I saw what they're planning to do. They're like locusts. They're moving from planet to planet... their whole civilization. After they've consumed every natural resource they move on... and we're next. Nuke 'em. Let's nuke the bastards.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116629/quotes

The Globe makes the huge mistake of "all them blacks look the same" that all liberals do in thinking of Muslims. al Qaeda is at least 2 factions:

Islamocommunists under Zawahiri getting intelligence from Russian FSB and transportation from the Chicoms.

Islamofascists under bin Laden with connections the Muslim Brotherhood and the Wahabbists of Saudi Arabia.

bin Laden does not have the oprerational strength nor manpower now as Zawahiri let him fight it out in Tora Bora where America killed most of his people as bin Laden begged them to fight and fled. He is a changed person now psychologically and more morose than before, but he can be negotiated with. Personally, I know from profiling him the things which would appeal to him as he and his followers are nothing at all like the thugs which follow Zawahiri. They are ass different as night and day.

In knowing that, I have concluded that when negotiations could be conducted that the Russians, Chicoms, Zawahiri and Taliban would execute bin Laden, but he holds within his grasp if he has the energy to become greater than Saladin.

In analyzing bin Laden's last statements, he knows massive terrorist attacks are coming from the Islamocommunists and while he is not cheering.........he is not that happy about the camel birthed. He is a quite intelligent person, mystic of the old order and prose runs through his veins although he was fractured mentally and in his heart at Tora Bora facing that humiliation and the cause of the death of all his people while he pleaded with them.

bin Laden knows that America will retaliate with the only measure democrats and the majority of Americans have left the President and that is nuclear arms. Putin desires this as it will leave him with the only blackmail oil supply and Arabs and Persians want this as nuclear pollution will cause such as soccer mom stink that American forces will be pulled from the region........bin Laden knows all of this and he does not want to be blamed by Muslims for a generation of dead cancer babies in an American response.

The Russians deliberately inflated this situation at the start and Clinton was so inept he was building al Qaeda and setting the stage for attacks on America. bin Laden was treated very badly by the Saudi's who helped create him. While I give him no excuses, there is not a person alive who would not have acted out the way bin Laden did as his own Muslims were manipulating him for communism's advancement.

I believe that Reagan would never have gotten into this leaving Russian controlling the board. There are still measures which could be employed with certain allies which I will not make public here which could within 6 months make bin Laden a negotiator in control of the situation.

Zawahiri though is too much the different animal. You can here it in his taunting videos. His profile is different from bin Laden, but I will not go into details on him either but from his background I do not see how he could ever be negotiated with...........remember he screwed bin Laden over for control of al Qaeda and if a Muslim will do that to one of their own it pretty well explains what they would do with America.

I do not mean this in any way liberal sarcasm, but I know if the groundwork were laid by someone who knew bin Laden so he would withdraw the barbs that George W. Bush could negotiate an outcome both parties would be satisfied with.

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Their is a big difference between the former Soviet Union and al-Qaeda. The Soviet Union was a sovereign country with an economy, political system etc. etc. al-Qaeda is a ‘organized’ group of terrorists  and has no resemblance to a sovereign state. You can’t negotiate with terrorists, you have no leverage to use against them as we did with the Soviet Union. The Globe is a collection of idiots that don’t use the brains between their ears.