Originally Posted by VoiceofReason

Yes, do you understand that when it comes to world politics you sometimes have to deal with people you wouldn't ordinarily like to and that it works very slowly usually through small steps. We dealt with Arafat didn't we. He wasn't such a great guy either, but sometimes we can't choose whom we want to deal with. But in all the cases you mention, our goal was to make it better and sometimes that takes decades.