The Talking Cure

The GOP, through the efforts of Bush and McCain, are trying to stir up a debate about whether talking to our enemies (countries like Iran, North Korea and Cuba) is a good or bad thing.

Salon's founder, David Talbot, phrased it this way in an article today that seeks to connect this election to the one in 1964:

Is talking with our enemies a sign of strong and intelligent—or weak and deluded—leadership?

Obviously, McCain thinks that talking to them is insane and Obama thinks that it is our best bet.

Talbot cites this quote from John F. Kennedy:

the United States is neither omnipotent or omniscient, that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse each adversity and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem. 

So, dear readers, what do you think? Is it a danger to talk to our "enemies" or is that the only way to avert disaster?