They don't seem to understand the fundamentals of diplomacy to boot. Negotiating from a stance of weakness is not diplomacy; it's appeasement. As the quote attributed to Frederick the Great goes, "Diplomacy without force of arms is like music without instruments"—and when you're on the run, your "negotiating partner" just laughs. "Peace for our time" redux.
Oh, c’mon! Are our leaders really so naïve to believe every problem can be solved by diplomacy?
Omoslem indeed wants a diplomatic solution: Iran gets nukes, threatens everybody, holds Israel at arm’s length while trying to overrun it with more aggressive terror proxies than ever before.
Today I was playing a video game called Crysis 2. The villain is a mad scientist named Hargreave who sells out the human race to aliens, and manipulates everybody to help the aliens take over and melt the humans into sludge.
Hargreave keeps marveling at how “elegant” and “efficient” the aliens are at “disposing of carcasses.” Every comment of his sounds like President Omoslem marveling at how efficient the Communist Chinese are, and how elegant and tolerant totalitarian islam is.
Omoslem has indeed betrayed us, and wishes he could hand Iran nukes himself. He’s attempting the next best thing — running interference until they’re nuclear-armed.