
France is debating whether or not the wearing of a burqa, the traditional Islamic woman’s “tent,” violates their laws. Apparently, this is a provocation to the extremists known as al Qaeda and they have vowed revenge on France for the “harassment” of their people. It is times like these, when a piece of clothing is enough to declare holy war on a country, that I realize that the idea that we can somehow reason with this type of enemy, or engage in direct talks without preconditions, is completely foolish. So when any proponent of infinite diplomacy and zero action posits that negotiation is the only way, the rational response to those starry-eyed idealists is “you can’t reason with the unreasonable.”
-AG


