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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans want to "make peace" with the far right? I thought US policy was to not negotiate with
terrorists. At least, that's what Representative Tom Cole (R-OK) had on his website in 2016:
Negotiating with Terrorists
August 29, 2016 Weekly Columns
It has been a longstanding policy of the United States that we will not negotiate with terrorists and we will not pay ransom money to free hostages. The reasons for this policy are obvious; paying ransoms incentivizes the taking of more hostages. U.S. presidents for decades have recognized this policy and adhered to it - until this president.
As we have learned over the last several weeks, the Obama administration paid Iran $400 million in pallets of foreign currency supposedly to pay them back for an arms deal in the late 1970s that the United States had negotiated with the Shah of Iran when they were considered a friendly ally. Not surprisingly, when the Shah was overthrown and the Islamic Revolutionaries took over the country and seized 52 American hostages, that arms deal was negated and diplomatic relations between our two countries were severed.
August 29, 2016 Weekly Columns
It has been a longstanding policy of the United States that we will not negotiate with terrorists and we will not pay ransom money to free hostages. The reasons for this policy are obvious; paying ransoms incentivizes the taking of more hostages. U.S. presidents for decades have recognized this policy and adhered to it - until this president.
As we have learned over the last several weeks, the Obama administration paid Iran $400 million in pallets of foreign currency supposedly to pay them back for an arms deal in the late 1970s that the United States had negotiated with the Shah of Iran when they were considered a friendly ally. Not surprisingly, when the Shah was overthrown and the Islamic Revolutionaries took over the country and seized 52 American hostages, that arms deal was negated and diplomatic relations between our two countries were severed.
[link:https://cole.house.gov/media-center/weekly-columns/negotiating-terrorists|
By the way, this myth that Obama gave Iran millions of dollars was debunked by FactCheck.org:
Former President Barack Obama didnt give 150 billion in cash to Iran.
The nuclear agreement included China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union, so Obama didnt carry out any part of it on his own. The deal did lift some sanctions, which lifted a freeze on Irans assets that were held largely in foreign, not U.S., banks. And, to be clear, the money that was unfrozen belonged to Iran. It had only been made inaccessible by sanctions aimed at crippling the countrys nuclear program.
The nuclear agreement included China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union, so Obama didnt carry out any part of it on his own. The deal did lift some sanctions, which lifted a freeze on Irans assets that were held largely in foreign, not U.S., banks. And, to be clear, the money that was unfrozen belonged to Iran. It had only been made inaccessible by sanctions aimed at crippling the countrys nuclear program.
[link:https://www.factcheck.org/2019/03/obama-didnt-give-iran-150-billion-in-cash/|
If the QOP Republican party now wants to "make peace" (i.e., negotiate) with the terrorist far-right extremists, then it's just another case of "if Republicans do it, it's okay."
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Republicans want to "make peace" with the far right? I thought US policy was to not negotiate with (Original Post)
LaMouffette
Feb 2021
OP
Since when do traitors follow US policy? Their goal is to destroy trust in the USA.
Midnight Writer
Feb 2021
#6
spanone
(135,830 posts)1. Republicons are the far right.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)2. How would they negotiate with terrorists? They ARE the terrorists.
LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)3. Yes. Yes they are!
handmade34
(22,756 posts)4. this is what Republicans used to think
"The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naïve, and I think it's dangerous."
~ George Allen
TheRealNorth
(9,478 posts)5. You cannot negotiate with people....
That run on the notion that compromise is a form of weakness. They will backstab us the first chance they get.
Midnight Writer
(21,753 posts)6. Since when do traitors follow US policy? Their goal is to destroy trust in the USA.