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Dear Mr. Bush --
Well, Iran announced today that it's releasing the British sailors you so endearingly called "hostages." Amazingly, the British and Iranians were able to come to a solution without firing a single cruise missile. We know that startles you.
It's amazing what diplomacy can accomplish when you're willing to actually talk to the other side. Now, given your demonstrated facility with the English language, we can understand your reticence to use words rather than bullets to settle problems, but y'know, you're not required to do the talking yourself and we're certain that there are people in your cabinet who can actually string words together into genuine sentences. You ought to use them.
Think what you might have accomplished in your administration if you'd been willing to engage in genuine negotiations with all those countries you called an "Axis of Evil"? I mean, the reports are saying that the British got Syria involved, and that Syria was instrumental in acting as a go-between with Iran. Syria: you know, that country you just blasted Nancy Pelosi for visiting, the one you refuse to have any relationship with at all because they're "supporters of terrorism."
Gosh, what might have happened if you'd picked up where the Clinton administration left off with North Korea. But no, you wouldn't talk to them, and you're just now approaching where we were with them six or seven years ago. Think of what you might have done in the Middle East if you'd actually talked to Syria, or Palestine, or... well, name your country. I mean, we wouldn't even have had to go into Iraq, because all that exhausting talking and negotiation they were doing with the United Nations had garnered results -- there were no WMDs there. Why, even now we could sit down with the Sunni insurgents in Iraq, with the Shia militias, and see if we could get somewhere that way rather than relying on your "surge" -- which is just more bullets and bodies...
Talking. Not your forte, we know. It's not the "cowboy" way. It's not the way of the fundamentalist, who believes that they're right and everyone else is just plain wrong, and so there's no reason to even listen to them, that in fact listening is dangerous because they might lead you astray. Heck, you won't even listen to your own people, the majority of whom are telling you that they no longer trust you at all.
You could take the British/Iran settlement as a lesson and drastically alter the course of what's left of the shambles of your administration. But you won't, will you?
What a shame.
Well, Iran announced today that it's releasing the British sailors you so endearingly called "hostages." Amazingly, the British and Iranians were able to come to a solution without firing a single cruise missile. We know that startles you.
It's amazing what diplomacy can accomplish when you're willing to actually talk to the other side. Now, given your demonstrated facility with the English language, we can understand your reticence to use words rather than bullets to settle problems, but y'know, you're not required to do the talking yourself and we're certain that there are people in your cabinet who can actually string words together into genuine sentences. You ought to use them.
Think what you might have accomplished in your administration if you'd been willing to engage in genuine negotiations with all those countries you called an "Axis of Evil"? I mean, the reports are saying that the British got Syria involved, and that Syria was instrumental in acting as a go-between with Iran. Syria: you know, that country you just blasted Nancy Pelosi for visiting, the one you refuse to have any relationship with at all because they're "supporters of terrorism."
Gosh, what might have happened if you'd picked up where the Clinton administration left off with North Korea. But no, you wouldn't talk to them, and you're just now approaching where we were with them six or seven years ago. Think of what you might have done in the Middle East if you'd actually talked to Syria, or Palestine, or... well, name your country. I mean, we wouldn't even have had to go into Iraq, because all that exhausting talking and negotiation they were doing with the United Nations had garnered results -- there were no WMDs there. Why, even now we could sit down with the Sunni insurgents in Iraq, with the Shia militias, and see if we could get somewhere that way rather than relying on your "surge" -- which is just more bullets and bodies...
Talking. Not your forte, we know. It's not the "cowboy" way. It's not the way of the fundamentalist, who believes that they're right and everyone else is just plain wrong, and so there's no reason to even listen to them, that in fact listening is dangerous because they might lead you astray. Heck, you won't even listen to your own people, the majority of whom are telling you that they no longer trust you at all.
You could take the British/Iran settlement as a lesson and drastically alter the course of what's left of the shambles of your administration. But you won't, will you?
What a shame.