re: #114 garhighway

In a perfect world, I would agree, but let’s not kid ourselves. We have been negotiating with the PLO, either directly or indiectlky for decades.

Where has this gotten us? Have any behaviors changed?

As I noted,

Imagine negotiating with the Nazi Party for 60 years, during which time it engaged in a limited but relentless terror and war- as well as their stated genocidal aims.

There comes a point after which negotiations are pointless.

When nations or groups that are that are led by or are under the influence of dysfunctional leaders, tyrants or dictators, attempt to justify their actions, we can rightly assume that justification is false. Tyrants and dictators do not make moral choices, because moral choices can only lead to the demise of the dysfunction or tyranny.

Anyone that comes to the defense of dysfunctional, immoral leaders or groups or tyrannical regimes and their leaders, have themselves made a conscious choice to defend and stand by what is immoral. They themselves consciously adopt an immoral posture.