What is the harm in talking after all? We hear that from the political left time and time again. It is the oft-repeated and “too-oft-implemented” position of former President Jimmy Carter, and it is the sort of thinking that led him to meet with terrorist leaders in Syria recently. While the talks predictably produced nothing of substance, they encouraged our enemies. First they indicated that US resolve to oppose them as a moral imperative is weak; second, they suggested that this moral weakness can become US policy with the right occupant in the White House.
