jammer:

Altamont, How well as Israel done when they sit down and actually negotiate with their enemies? They have been at peace with Eygpt since 1978, after Jimmy Carter mediated the Camp David Accords. That's thirty years without an attack from one of their bitterest foes. Have they negotiated with others with the same honesty and willingness to compromise? I don't think so. it's been their way or no way since then.

Reagan had less to do with the collapse of the USSR than Afghanistan and it's drain on Soviet military and the Soviets bankrupting their country trying to control it. Much like Iraq is doing to the USA right now.

When was the last time,(not counting the economical attack we are now experiencing) China attacked the US after Nixon went there to "talk" to them?

How many treaties has the USA signed then ignored when we decided that it was in our interests to do so? Talking to your enemies is not the same as surrendering to their demands.

I agree it is not the same and I actually am not opposed in many cases. Iran however does seem to be hyper radical on the Islamic world thoughts or death to the infidels and they are very much involved in training the most extreme terrorists to carry out their dirty work.

I disagree on Israel. Israel is willing to accept peace at almost any cost, meanwhile I see no sincer attempt by any arab neighbor to be as willing.

China I simply do not trust, a godless communist regime has never brought anything but sorrow to its own people and its neighbors.