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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/weekinreview/16coop.html
America's New Talk Policy with "Rogue" States
[New York Times] Helene Cooper - America is about to enter a new age of talk. Seven years of President Bush's Don't-Talk-to-Evil policy are over. Now administration officials are openly making nice with Syria, holding round after round of talks with Iran over the fate of Iraq, and making preliminary plans for Secretary of State Rice to visit Libya. "Will we talk to the rogues or not?" says Robert J. Einhorn, a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He says the answer is clear: We will.