Talking with the enemy, there is nothing wrong with that, Dr. Rice

Secretary Rice is taking her cue from Tel-Aviv Ehud Olmert and is refusing to open talks with both Syria and Iran. It seems that the Secretary of State of the most powerful country is not her one boss, and is waiting for instruction to come not from the White House but from Tel-Aviv.
It is difficult to understand why Secretary Rice is insistence on not talking with Iran and Iraq if that will help this country and will help stabilize Iraq and perhaps if not putting an end to the mayhem in Iraq, at least slow the bloodshed in the street of Baghdad. Saving the life of one single American soldier should be worth all the efforts, but not for Secretary Rice and her masters.
As Secretary of State she is able to open talks with so many enemies of the US, especially with North Korea, but to open talks with countries in the Middle East and especially countries that are odd with Israel is another story. The interest of the US always takes a second seat to that of the State of Israel. Not talking with the enemy does not solve the problems at hand.
While I have been consistent with my outspoken critic of Syria and the Ba’athist regime sitting in Damascus for the last 40 years, not opening dialogue with the enemy is an absolute wrong. It is an absolute wrong for Israel not to open channel of discussions with Arab countries, and it is wrong for Arab countries not to open dialogue with Israel if such a dialogue will help in one way or the other break the impasse in peace talks between the Arabs and Israel. The same is true of the failure of Secretary Rice to open a dialogue and a channel of communications between Washington and Damascus and Teheran. I know that Conservative Republicans and AIPAC will go into frenzy and mental seizures if such a channel of communications is open, but the question is what is wrong with that. There is absolutely nothing wrong with talking with the enemy. Absolutely nothing.
For the last few years, Secretary Rice action and decisions has proved the country is much better off with her at some academic instructions where her decisions do not affect the lives of American or for that matter any human being, and it is time for her to retire.
More troubling is her philosophy of building democracies under occupations where people lives are threatened by the occupiers every day and where people not only lose their dignity at check points but their lives as is the case in Occupied Palestine, but she also promoted and sponsored the dropping of over 5 million cluster bombs over Lebanon so that she can force Hizballah to talk of disarming. While she was supporting the Lebanese government of Fouad Sinyoura, she was prompting Israel to drop more bombs and kill more civilians and destroy more building and infrastructures. Never one could understand such a policy and decision maker. Rice is nothing but trouble for American and for the world. American and the world will be much safer if she was in some class room, where she can talk of politics but not make decisions that results in death and destruction of American, Arabs and Israeli lives. He attitude toward talking with the enemy does not serve any one. President Bush is making a big mistake following Secretary Rice refusal to open a dialogue with both Iran and Syrian if such talks can help bring our troops home and if such dialogues will bring an end to the bloodshed that claimed the lives of over 650,000 Iraqis.
Perhaps the families of the brave American soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq due to fraudulent case for war should travel to Tel-Aviv and lobby Rice masters to giving her the green line to open dialogue with both Syrian and Iran.
I have to conclude with the caveat, that I was never a great fan of these two nations. Perhaps American and the world are safer with Rice in the classroom.