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Quite A Track Record

Actually, it has been tried several times before, so there’s a track-record. ~Michael Rubin

Rubin means that there have been other occasions when Westerners have talked to representatives of leaders in the Near East and North Africa.  There actually haven’t been attempts to negotiate directly with Iran and Syria on this subject, and there haven’t been direct talks with the Iranians for decades.  So that’s not much of a track-record, unless, of course, you want to argue that “those people” all think the same.

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Daniel Larison is a senior editor at TAC, where he also keeps a solo blog. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.

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