is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. So by all means, lets continue the "stick only" foreign policy of the past 7 years.

I don't know about "without conditions" but I do know that any leverage we might have had to demand said conditions in the first half of this decade have been squandered. We have a war-weary population, an overtaxed military, and a dearth of allies strong allies. What are we going to do, invade Iran? That would require a draft, and would mean the end of the political line for the GOP, probably for decades. You think Ahmadinejad doesn't know that?

Now I may not know the first thing about negotiation, but that doesn't sound like a strong position to be in.