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Let’s talk with our enemies, Iran and Syria. Let’s talk with terror abettors as if they were good guys — just like us. As if they were just concerned neighbors trying to stop the bloodshed in Iraq … instead of the dons who’ve been commanding it all along… When I grew up in The Bronx, there were street gangs. You mostly stayed away from them, and, if you really had to, you fought with them. But I never remember anyone saying, “Gee, maybe if we just talk with them …” Nor do I remember, in two decades as a prosecutor, anyone saying, “Y’know, maybe if we just talk with these Mafia guys, we could achieve some kind of understanding …”

Andrew C. McCarthy outlines why it makes no sense to “talk to Iran and Syria”. I agree that developing anything similar to what we think of as democracy is a project of generations. But it is not clear that it is a failure as McCarthy describes it. E.g., the Iraq and Lebanon polls have been consistent on the majority desire for a democratic form of government.