Friday, 30 May 2008

Not Good To Talk

So this fellow reckons we could/should be 'talking to Al Qaeda'. Er, about what? What are the negotiable demands of a group that basically wants us all dead, and that, to all appearances, practises terrorism for its own sake. We can be sure that Al Qaeda, had it the nuclear firepower, would obliterate the US, the UK and whomever else they especially dislike. So what do we do - negotiate them down from a 100percent kill to, say, 80percent, maybe trading submission of the survivors to their particular brand of Islam in return for this concession? Sometimes it really isn't good to talk.
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11 comments:

  1. malty30 May 2008 at 13:42

    Someone should have a quiet word in sir plod's ear and explain the difference between the Irish bloodthirsty murderers and the Muslim bloodthirsty murderers.
    Possibly he wants to ask them to use smaller nails in their bombs, a compromise solution, as nulab would say

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  2. Anonymous30 May 2008 at 14:40

    How much longer, dear Lord, how much longer?

    Contrary to the hope that these useful idiots would diminish in number with the increase in the quantity of contradictory empirical evidence, it seems they are breeding.

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  3. Anonymous30 May 2008 at 15:00

    We could get some useful tips on cave-dwelling.

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  4. Nige30 May 2008 at 15:09

    Just came across this.

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  5. Frank Wilson30 May 2008 at 16:02

    Too bad he's British. If he were American he could be Obama's running mate. The Big O wants to talk to everybody, sans conditions - unless, of course, their allies.

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  6. malty30 May 2008 at 16:11

    Al Qaedia's got a media arm ? they should give Alasdair Campbell a try, he has all of the required qualifications, all of that spinning for a bunch of power mad lunatics. does it also have publicists, sort of Abdullah Clifford,

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  7. Anonymous30 May 2008 at 22:07

    i reckon we should be arming the moderate Muslims and turning them against the extremists. Then of course quickly disarm them...

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  8. Anonymous1 June 2008 at 12:24

    Demands? Negotiations? Have we all lost sight of the basic niceties of the art of conversation? Why do we have to have a "reason" to talk? Why can't we just engage them in conversation for conversation's sake?

    We could start out with "how was your day?" and take it from there. "How's the weather there? Are the poppies in bloom? I loved 'The Kite Runner', have you seen it yet?"

    I think we will find that we have so much in common with our erstwhile enemies that we may just forget about what it was we were fighting about in the first place.

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  9. Anonymous1 June 2008 at 12:29

    But seriously, we could ask them what they want it to say on their tombstones. I'd be willing to negotiate that.

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  10. malty1 June 2008 at 12:51

    Bring general McAllufe back and let him do the talking.

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  11. Ian russell1 June 2008 at 22:40

    the assumption here is that no one on 'our side' is talking to Al-Q? that's an odder notion, imo.

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