re: #413 kirkspencer

Apparently you think diplomacy is done solely with soft voices and gentle words.

No.

Sometimes yes, but you have to use the hard stuff too.

Yes, it’s emotionally charged. It’s scary and ugly, and so it makes an excellent attention grabber:

“Your choice is between fixing this or hell. So tell me, how do you plan to avoid hell?

Why reserve hardball insults for the Israelis? I still have yet to see why this is helpful. We haven’t seen similar harsh words to our enemies.