You are so clever. DOn't even understand the point I am trying to bring across.
WHy don't you ask the next US president to negotiate with Osama?
Hamas isn't Osama, how many times I have to tell you? I mean, read your history. Nazi Germany doesn't equate to Hamas in the first place.
I mean, first up, Nazi Germany had a permanent address; it was a country, a state, that another country can deliver bombs from above. Osama Bin Laden is in charge of an extremist organisation that is trans-national, one which has no permanent address.
And besides, Nazi Germany is secular; they had different levels of hostility towards the main religions. OBL's version of Islam is basically fundamentalist, and that's why they are pretty much apart, on a different level.
That's why you can't compare Nazi Germany to Al Qaeda. You are making this argument as simplistic as possible to suit yourself, when the problem is much more complicated. Its on the level of neo-conservatism really to reduce it to the most lowest common denominator. No wonder the neo-cons coin this silly term called "Islamic fascism", thinking this religion or any of the mainstream one is the inspiration for the idea of fascism when fascism in the first place is a secular political thought that discriminates people on basis of race and religion.
Do you work with someone that has VOW to destroy you and wipe you off from the face of the world, why can they work with Fatah and not Hamas, why can they the Israelis have peace with Egypt, as long as there are parties like Hamas that are bend on wiping Israel from the face of the earth there will never be peace ih that part of the world, you should ask the President of Iran he is the loudest in wanting Israel or jew to be wipe off period.
You also need to understand, why Muslim the peace loving type would never come out and protest in large # against suicide bombers after all they are of the same religion Islam, they have to support their own even if they know it is wrong it is written in their Koran.
The point is that isolating these parties don't work. You look at North Korea, Cuba and you realise that when US isolated them in the early part of the Bush administration, they became even more hostile.
China is another good example where after Nixon visited the country 2 years before he resigned, China decided to open up and introduce capitalism again into the country, and with that foreign investment and ideas.
And if you think we can't induce Hamas to moderate itself when we start talking to them, then look to the IRA in North Ireland, which also used sectarian reasons(they were Catholic) to oppose British rule. And yet after Bill Clinton invited Sinn Fein, Garry Adams to the US for talks and lectures, IRA begin to realise that an guerrilla war based on sectarian reasons may not be the best way. And since many Northern Irish citizens still wanted to be part of the UK, Sinn Fein began to re-assert control over the military wing. Tony Blair also realised this and heavily pursued peace talks, heavily involving Sinn Fein, IRA's political wing, in the process of diplomacy for peace in NI.
The result is that IRA has already full disarmed now, and is part of the political process. They are also now part of the grand coalition with their former sworn enemies. So who says one cannot induce a religious-based guerrilla movement to disarm and be part of the political process?
History has proven otherwise. And history has also proven that isolation don't work. In fact isolation makes rogue regimes, and sectarian insurgent movements even more extreme. They after all have to appeal with their base and in the absence of foreign, moderating influences, these parties and movements will only shift more to the extreme right.
