this is a take i was waiting for. beau on what works-

[lapfog_1]

5. the problem is

getting to sit across a peace table with a group that beheads babies... and shoots teenagers running away from a concert.

the examples he cites, at least both sides in the conflicts view the other side as human.

I'm pretty sure those people dragging the bodies of young women and celebrating it by kicking the body do not view any Jewish person as "human". Just like the Nazis in Hitler's Germany gassing 6 million Jews (and other people).

BTW, we never sat down over the peace table to negotiate with either Germany or Japan in WW2. It was unconditional surrender followed by occupation.