[Peace-discuss] What Kissinger Said: "I Do Not Believe That We Can Make Conditions"

[John W.]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 12:04 PM, LAURIE SOLOMON <LAURIE at advancenet.net>wrote:

>"I am in favor of negotiating with Iran.... But I do not believe that
> >we can make conditions for the opening of negotiations."
> ...
> >What [the neocons] fear is not that talks would be useless, but that
> >they might be productive...
>
> The logic and reasoning reminds me of the 1960s when Johnson use to say to
> the anti-war protesters "let us reason together" but refused to entertain
> the question as to whose logic should be used to do the reasoning - the
> administration's logic or the logic of the anti-war people. The anti-war
> people refused to accept the logic proposed by the administration since
> they
> knew that it would lead to the administration's conclusions and preclude
> any
> alternative conclusions.


'Twas ever thus.  There's always a point at which two people, or two
nations, don't agree on the very basic, fundamental assumptions underlying
the entirety of their intellectual house of cards.  That's why people have
been fighting and killing one another since time immemorial.

John Wason



> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net] On Behalf Of Robert
> Naiman
> Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 11:01 AM
> To: Peace-discuss
> Subject: [Peace-discuss] What Kissinger Said: "I Do Not Believe That We Can
> Make Conditions"
>
> Jim Lehrer missed an opportunity last night to help clarify for people
> watching the debate what is in dispute between Democrats like Barack
> Obama and Republicans like John McCain about U.S. policy towards Iran.
> For the record, this is what McCain adviser former U.S. Secretary of
> State Henry Kissinger said about U.S. policy towards Iran, according
> to the transcript on CNN's website:
>
> "I am in favor of negotiating with Iran.... But I do not believe that
> we can make conditions for the opening of negotiations."
> ...
> What [the neocons] fear is not that talks would be useless, but that
> they might be productive...
>
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/what-kissinger-said-i-do_b_12986
> 9.html<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/what-kissinger-said-i-do_b_129869.html>
>
> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/27/11318/6202
>
>
> --
> Robert Naiman
> Just Foreign Policy
> www.justforeignpolicy.org
> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
>
> Ambassador Pickering on Iran Talks and Multinational Enrichment
> http://youtube.com/watch?v=kGZFrFxVg8A
>
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