Iraq?
Ahmadinejad is president in Iran.
Big difference.
Iran's real leader is the Ayatollah Khamenei BTW.
If
that's the case, ...there's a chance for diplomacy, ...cause Ahmadinejad is more hardcore than even the Ayotollahs.
My point is, that a live debate wouldn't lead to any agreement between Iran and USA, it would only serve to humiliate the president of USA.
It wouldn't have to be a humiliation, ...but I concede even if one weren't trying to humiliate him, ...it would be kind of hard not to. What it would do would be to open up the eyes of an American populace that was unaware of the true nature of the relationship between both states. And I'm sure that the negotiated settlement that Bush Sr was party to, whereby the US government agreed to pay Iran billions of dollars in restitution for the wrongdoing on the part of the US is not something they want coming out to the American public.
Perhaps funny, but bad for USA, and even worse for Iran. If Bush gets humiliated, it would lock the positions.
It might piss off Bush, and other PNAC warhawks, but there is no way the American people would be so childish and so petty as to let their country go to war over Bush's bruised ego. Not today, ...not with so many already dead soldiers from a series of premeditated murders & lies.
Bush getting thoroughly pwned infront of the American audience could be one of the best things to happen to the USA in the last 6 years! There is no way the American public would be stupid enough to elect anyone of his cabinet after that, ...and that would be a good thing for America, ...and the rest of the world. Bruised egos are always recoverable, ...but dead bodies of military personnel and civilians remain dead.
Better to work with diplomacy. Perhaps not as spectacular, but more effective.
Never humiliate your opponent.
YIP
Zack
I agree. Diplomacy works, ...but in order to have diplomacy, ...you need communication.
