Dealing With Islamic Extremism: How The Soviets Did It

Obviously, the U.S. would never adopt the Soviet approach. However, what the Soviet’s response reveals is that in any negotiations with Iran, there can be no quarter. here’s an old tale about a farmer who recognized there was only one way to deal with his donkey. He had to strike it twice on the head with a two-by-four—the first time simply to gain its attention, the second to get it to listen to what he had to say. Not to trigger animal rights activists by relating this tale, it is shared simply to underscore the more serious problem of how...