US faces leaders not 'ready' or 'able' to talk things out
(NEWSER) - The Obama administration wants to talk to countries like Afghanistan and North Korea—but you can’t make a deal with leaders who aren’t ready or able to make one, Thomas Friedman writes in the New York Times. The US is trying to employ classic diplomacy in an “age of pirates, failed states, nonstate actors, and nation-building—the stuff of snipers, drones, and generals, not diplomats.” More»
