Washington to Talk to Hamas - Someday Maybe

by Charles Lenchner · 2009-03-15 19:35:00 UTC
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At least, that's what the MSM is chattering about, from Qatar to Jerusalem to Washington. Aljazeera:

"I see no reason not to talk to Hamas," Brent Scowcroft, a former US national adviser to president George Bush senior, was quoted as saying.

Scowcroft signed the letter along with Zbigniew Brzezinski, another former national security adviser and Paul Volcker, Obama's economic recovery adviser, the Boston Globe said.

Jeusalem Post:

According to the report, Paul A. Volcker and other members of the bipartisan group - including former national security advisers Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski - have sent a letter to Obama urging him to engage Hamas in order to coax the terrorist organization to disarm and join a peaceful Palestinian unity government.

(snip) The report is not the first instance of cracks appearing in the international boycott of local terror organizations. Britain recently announced that it would hold discussions with Hizbullah's political wing.

Boston Globe:

Along with Scowcroft, Volcker, and Brzezinski, who was national security adviser under President Jimmy Carter, signatories included former House International Relations Committee chairman Lee Hamilton, a Democrat; former United Nations ambassador Thomas Pickering from the first Bush administration; former World Bank president James Wolfensohn; former US trade representative in the Ford administration Carla Hills; Theodore Sorensen, former special counsel to President John F. Kennedy; and former Republican senators Chuck Hagel and Nancy Kassebaum Baker.

These are serious people folks. I'm hopeful. Talking to Hamas is a good thing.

Charles Lenchner
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