The Daily Background

CBS host Bob Scheiffer wonders why the hell we aren’t using old fashioned diplomacy to talk to Syria to work to solve the middle east crisis. He notes that the U.S. maintained diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union for the entire Cold War– so why can’t the current White House Administration manage to talk with comparatively tiny Syria? Are we really that afraid of them?

Update: See what not talking gets us?

Filed under: Middle East Crisis, Z-TDB Blog